Boosted High-Harmonics Pulse from a Double-Sided Relativistic Mirror

Journal Article · Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 EDT 2009 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.103.025002· OSTI ID:21347042

Esirkepov, T Zh; Bulanov, S V; Kando, M; Pirozhkov, A S ^[1]; Zhidkov, A G ^[2]

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1. Kansai Photon Science Institute, JAEA, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215 (Japan)
2. Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 240-0196 (Japan)

An ultrabright high-power x- and gamma-radiation source is proposed. A high-density thin plasma slab, accelerating in the radiation pressure dominant regime by an ultraintense electromagnetic wave, reflects a counterpropagating relativistically strong electromagnetic wave, producing extremely time-compressed and intensified radiation. The reflected light contains relativistic harmonics generated at the plasma slab, all upshifted with the same factor as the fundamental mode of the incident light. The theory of an arbitrarily moving thin plasma slab reflectivity is presented.

• OSTI ID: 21347042
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 103, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.025002; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
07 ISOTOPES AND RADIATION SOURCES
GAMMA RADIATION
HARMONICS
PLASMA
PULSES
RADIATION PRESSURE
REFLECTIVITY
RELATIVISTIC RANGE
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ENERGY RANGE
IONIZING RADIATIONS
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
OSCILLATIONS
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
RADIATIONS
SURFACE PROPERTIES