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Paper   IPM / Physic / 8064
School of Physics
  Title:   Ponderomotive Acceleration of Electrons in the Interaction of Arbitrarily Polarized Laser Pulse with A Tenuous Plasma
  Author(s): 
1.  V. Sazegari
2.  M. Mirzaei
3.  B. Shokri
  Status:   Published
  Journal: Phys. Plasmas
  Vol.:  13
  Year:  2006
  Pages:   0033102
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
The forward ponderomotive force associated with an intense short laser pulse, propagating in a tenuous plasma, accelerates the electrons to velocities higher than the group velocity of the laser. In this work, a simple general solution for ponderomotive acceleration is presented for arbitrary polarization. The circular polarization is more efficient than linear polarization, since the threshold laser intensity needed for electron acceleration is lower for a circularly polarized laser pulse.

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