Plasma wave excitation and charged particle acceleration in an overdense plasma

✍ Scribed by Meetoo Singh; J. Parashar; N.K. Gaur

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 117 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1612-2011
• DOI: 10.1002/lapl.200510015

✦ Synopsis

A laser incident on an overdense plasma, generates a
space charge wave at second harmonic (2ω). The amplitude of
the generated wave is resonantly enhanced at 2ω=ω~p~,
leading to substantial reduction in the reflectivity of the
plasma. The generated plasma wave can accelerate the electrons to
few keV of energies.