Journal article

Publication year: 1991

Pages: 675-690

Journal: Laser and Particle Beams

Volume number: 9

Issue number: 3

ISSN: 0263-0346

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263034600003694

Publisher: Hindawi

Abstract: 
High-intensity laser beams propagating in a plasma become focused because the index of refraction depends on the relativistic mass of the electron and therefore is a function of the electric field strength through the electron velocity. Around the focus the laser field has such a high density of energy that electrons and ions are emitted owing to the nonlinear force arising from this field. The equations of motion for the electrons and the ions and the Maxwellian equations for the laser and plasma fields are solved under certain approximations. We calculate the maximal energy and the angular distribution of the emitted ions and compare the results with experimental data.

Harvard Citation style: HAUSER, T. and SCHEID, W. (1991) ENERGY AND ANGULAR-DISTRIBUTION OF IONS EMITTED FROM A PLASMA AFTER RELATIVISTIC SELF-FOCUSING OF LASER-BEAMS, Laser and Particle Beams, 9(3), pp. 675-690. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263034600003694

APA Citation style: HAUSER, T., & SCHEID, W. (1991). ENERGY AND ANGULAR-DISTRIBUTION OF IONS EMITTED FROM A PLASMA AFTER RELATIVISTIC SELF-FOCUSING OF LASER-BEAMS. Laser and Particle Beams. 9(3), 675-690. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263034600003694