Charged particle motion and radiation in strong electromagnetic fields

A Gonoskov, TG Blackburn, M Marklund… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - APS
The dynamics of charged particles in electromagnetic fields is an essential component of
understanding the most extreme environments in our Universe. In electromagnetic fields of …

Relativistic mirrors in plasmas. Novel results and perspectives

SV Bulanov, TZ Esirkepov, M Kando… - Physics …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Relativistic flying mirrors in plasmas are thin, dense electron or electron–ion layers
accelerated by high-intensity electromagnetic waves to velocities close to the speed of light …

QED cascades induced by circularly polarized laser fields

NV Elkina, AM Fedotov, IY Kostyukov, MV Legkov… - Physical Review Special …, 2011 - APS
The results of Monte-Carlo simulations of electron-positron-photon cascades initiated by
slow electrons in circularly polarized fields of ultrahigh strength are presented and …

On the problems of relativistic laboratory astrophysics and fundamental physics with super powerful lasers

SV Bulanov, TZ Esirkepov, M Kando, J Koga… - Plasma Physics …, 2015 - Springer
The ways toward modeling of astrophysical processes and extreme field regimes with super-
power lasers are discussed. The main attention is paid to the problem of limited similarity in …

Enhancement of photon number reflected by the relativistic flying mirror

M Kando, AS Pirozhkov, K Kawase, TZ Esirkepov… - Physical review …, 2009 - APS
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 …

High-contrast, high-intensity petawatt-class laser and applications

H Kiriyama, M Mori, AS Pirozhkov… - IEEE Journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A high-contrast high-intensity petawatt-class Ti: sapphire chirped-pulse amplification laser
has been developed for research on high field science. A saturable absorber and a low-gain …

Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac versus Landau-Lifshitz radiation friction force in the ultrarelativistic electron interaction with electromagnetic wave (exact solutions)

SV Bulanov, TZ Esirkepov, M Kando, JK Koga… - Physical Review E …, 2011 - APS
When the parameters of electron-extreme power laser interaction enter the regime of
dominated radiation reaction, the electron dynamics changes qualitatively. The adequate …

Soft-x-ray harmonic comb from relativistic electron spikes

AS Pirozhkov, M Kando, TZ Esirkepov, P Gallegos… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
We demonstrate a new high-order harmonic generation mechanism reaching the “water
window” spectral region in experiments with multiterawatt femtosecond lasers irradiating gas …

Uniform laser-driven relativistic electron layer for coherent Thomson scattering

HC Wu, J Meyer-ter-Vehn, J Fernández, BM Hegelich - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
A novel scheme is proposed to generate uniform relativistic electron layers for coherent
Thomson backscattering. A few-cycle laser pulse is used to produce the electron layer from …

On the design of experiments for the study of extreme field limits in the interaction of laser with ultrarelativistic electron beam

SV Bulanov, TZ Esirkepov, Y Hayashi, M Kando… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2011 - Elsevier
We propose the experiments on the collision of laser light and high intensity electromagnetic
pulses generated by relativistic flying mirrors, with electron bunches produced by a …