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View SchemaRelativistic Doppler effect: universal spectra and zeptosecond pulses
| Authors | S. Gordienko, A. Pukhov, O. Shorokhov, T. Baeva |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0405042 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0405042 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.115002 |
Abstract
We report on a numerical observation of the train of zeptosecond pulses produced by reflection of a relativistically intense femtosecond laser pulse from the oscillating boundary of an overdense plasma because of the Doppler effect. These pulses promise to become a unique experimental and technological tool since their length is of the order of the Bohr radius and the intensity is extremely high $\propto 10^{19}$ W/cm$^2$. We present the physical mechanism, analytical theory, and direct particle-in-cell simulations. We show that the harmonic spectrum is universal: the intensity of $n$th harmonic scales as $1/n^{p}$ for $n < 4\gamma^2$, where $\gamma$ is the largest $\gamma$--factor of the electron fluid boundary, $p=3$ and $p=5/2$ for the broadband and quasimonochromatic laser pulses respectively.
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