We study the generation of nonlinear plasma wake fields by intense laser pulses,using an Eulerian code for the numerical solution of the fully relativistic onedimensional(1D)Vlasov-Maxwell equations.The examination of...We study the generation of nonlinear plasma wake fields by intense laser pulses,using an Eulerian code for the numerical solution of the fully relativistic onedimensional(1D)Vlasov-Maxwell equations.The examination of the phase-space of the distribution function allows to study without numerical noise aspects of the particle acceleration by the wake-field generated by intense laser pulses,in the very low density regions of the phase-space.We study the effect of the thermal spread on the existence of accelerated beams,and we compare between results obtained from a circularly polarized wave and a linearly polarized wave.展开更多
基金The constant support and interest of Dr.Andr´e Besner is gratefully acknowledged。
文摘We study the generation of nonlinear plasma wake fields by intense laser pulses,using an Eulerian code for the numerical solution of the fully relativistic onedimensional(1D)Vlasov-Maxwell equations.The examination of the phase-space of the distribution function allows to study without numerical noise aspects of the particle acceleration by the wake-field generated by intense laser pulses,in the very low density regions of the phase-space.We study the effect of the thermal spread on the existence of accelerated beams,and we compare between results obtained from a circularly polarized wave and a linearly polarized wave.
