Extreme field limits in the interaction of laser light with ultrarelativistic electrons

S V Bulanov,S S Bulanov,A Zhidkov,D Neely,G Korn,M Kando,H Kiriyama,H Kotaki,J Koga,Y Kato,P Chen,Y Hayashi,T Zh Esirkepov,K Kondo,A Pirozhkov,N B Narozhny

doi:10.1063/1.4737545

Extreme field limits in the interaction of laser light with ultrarelativistic electrons

S V Bulanov, S S Bulanov + Show 14 more

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4737545

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Publication Date: Jan 1, 2012

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Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley, Osaka University, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics, Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries, National Taiwan University, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Institute of Engineering Physics

#Nonlinear Interaction Of Electromagnetic Waves #High Intensity Electromagnetic Pulses + Show 8 more

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The critical electric field of quantum electrodynamics is so strong that it produces electron-positron pairs from vacuum, converting the energy of light into matter. This field has become feasible through the construction of extremely high power lasers or/and with the sophisticated use of nonlinear processes in relativistic plasmas. A feasibility of the experiments on the collision of laser light and high intensity electromagnetic pulses, generated by relativistic flying mirrors, with relativistic electrons for the studying of extreme field limits in the nonlinear interaction of electromagnetic waves is discussed.

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