Laser even harmonics generation by a plasma embedded in a static electric field

✍ Scribed by G. Ferrante; M. Zarcone; S. A. Uryupin

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 137 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1612-2011
• DOI: 10.1002/lapl.200310044

✦ Synopsis

Even order harmonics generation of the laser radiation due to electron-ion collisions in a plasma embedded in a constant electric field is investigated theoretically. Even harmonics are generated because the presence of a static electric field removes the invariance of the electron distribution function under the symmetry operation of velocity direction inversion. Efficiency generation dependencies are investigated__vs__different significant parameters as: harmonics number; the ratio of the electron quiver velocity to the thermal velocity; the orientation of the constant electric field with respect to the laser radiation electric field and its wavevector. It is shown that in the general case the polarization planes of different even harmonics are different and do not coincide with that of the generating laser radiation.