Anomalous Radiative Trapping in Laser Fields of Extreme Intensity
Journal article, 2014

We demonstrate that charged particles in a sufficiently intense standing wave are compressed toward, and oscillate synchronously at, the antinodes of the electric field. We call this unusual behavior anomalous radiative trapping (ART). We show using dipole pulses, which offer a path to increased laser intensity, that ART opens up new possibilities for the generation of radiation and particle beams, both of which are high energy, directed, and collimated. ART also provides a mechanism for particle control in high-intensity quantum-electrodynamics experiments.

Author

Arkady Gonoskov

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Condensed Matter Theory

A. Bashinov

I. Gonoskov

C. Harvey

Antony Ilderton

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Condensed Matter Theory

A. Kim

Mattias Marklund

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Condensed Matter Theory

G. Mourou

A. Sergeev

Physical Review Letters

0031-9007 (ISSN) 1079-7114 (eISSN)

Vol. 113 1 014801

Subject Categories

Physical Sciences

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.014801

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