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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kando, M
• Pirozhkov, A S
• Kawase, K
• Esirkepov, T Zh
• Fukuda, Y
• Kiriyama, H
• Okada, H
• Daito, I
• Kameshima, T
• Hayashi, Y
• Kotaki, H
• Mori, M
• Koga, J K
• Daido, H
• Faenov, A Ya
• Pikuz, T
• Ma, J
• Chen, L-M
• Ragozin, E N
• Kawachi, T
• Kato, Y
• Tajima, T
• Bulanov, S V

Titel

Enhancement of photon number reflected by the relativistic flying mirror

Ist Teil von

• Physical review letters, 2009-12, Vol.103 (23), p.235003-235003, Article 235003

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

PROLA - Physical Review Online Archive

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Laser light reflection by a relativistically moving electron density modulation (flying mirror) in a wake wave generated in a plasma by a high intensity laser pulse is investigated experimentally. A counterpropagating laser pulse is reflected and upshifted in frequency with a multiplication factor of 37-66, corresponding to the extreme ultraviolet wavelength. The demonstrated flying mirror reflectivity (from 3 x 10(-6) to 2 x 10(-5), and from 1.3 x 10(-4) to 0.6 x 10(-3), for the photon number and pulse energy, respectively) is close to the theoretical estimate for the parameters of the experiment.