VIOLENT PARTICLE-FIELD INTERACTION PROCESSES

The Physics-Mathematics Working Group

Who is who:
Ulrich H. Gerlach
Linn Van Woerkom

Tutorials:
1.  Laser-accelerated charge: dynamics and trajectories   Postscript
2.  Fourier spectrum of a signal chirped by acceleration   Postscript
3.  Fourier theory of a periodic train of laser pulses          Postscript
4.  a)You and your research (the "condensed" version)   Postscript
     b)You and your research (the "original" version)        Pdf
5.  Isomorphism between train of pulses and multi-slit Young's interference   Pdf
6.  The Wave Packet Representation  Postscript
7.  Laser-Induced Electron Dynamics  Postscript  (last update: 8/22/2004)
8.  Three problems: i) Charged particle in a generic e.m. field    Postscript
                                ii) Charged particle in the e.m. field of a generic plane wave   Postscript 
                               iii) Charged particle in the e.m. field of a travelling plane wave   Postscript     (last update: 12/4/2004)
9.  Laser-driven particle mechanics  Postscript  Pdf   (last update:  11/17/2005)
10. Particle scattering by two colliding laser pulses  Postscript  Pdf  (last update 12/4/2005)
11. Movie of charges moving in the e.m. field of two counter propagating laser pulses   (last update 2/9/2009)
12. Electron scattering by the intense few-cycle laser fi21ds of a planar geometrys Postscript  Pdf  (last update 9/21/2009)
13. Snell's Law and Refraction of Electron World Lines by Intense Laser Fields Postscript  Pdf  (last updated 11/06/2008)
14. Characteristic Radiation Impedance of Free Space  Postscript  Pdf  (last updated 11/06/2008)
15. Movie of two counter-propagating pulses, one long, the other short   (last update 2/17/2009)
16. Movie of two counter-propagating pulses -- one long, the other short -- interacting with 4000 initially stationary charges   (last update 2/18/2009)



Reading list:
1a
T.W.B. Kibble.
Refraction of electron beams by intense electromagnetic waves.
Physical Review Letter, 23:1054-1056, 1966.
     1b

          T.W.B Kibble.
          Mutual Refraction of Electrons and Photons
          Physical Review, 150:1060-1069, 1966
2
E.S. Sarachik and G.T. Schappert.
Classical theory of the scattering of intense laser tadiation by free electrons.
Physical Review D, 1:2738-2753, 1970.

 
3
J.N. Bardsley and B.M. Penetrante.
Relativistic dynamics of electrons in intense laser fields.
Physical Review A, 40:3823-3835, 1989.

 
4
C.I. Moore, J.P. Knauer, and D.D. Meyerhofer.
Observation of the transition from thompson to compton scattering
in multiphoton interactions with low-energy electrons.
Physical Review Letter, 74:2439-2442, 1995.

 
5
David D. Meyerhofer.
High-intensity-laser-electron scattering.
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 33:1935-1941, 1997.

 
6
J.L. Chaloupka and D.D. Meyerhofer.
Observation of electron trapping in an intense laser beam.
Physical Review Letters, 83:4538-4541, 1999.

 
7
C. Bamber, D.D. Meyerhofer, K.T. McDonald, et al.
Studies of nonlinear qed in collisions of 46.6 gev electrons with intense laser pulses.
Physical Review D, 60:092003-1, 1999.
8
          Th. Udem, J. Reichert, R. Holzwarth, and T.W. Haensch. 
          Accurate measurement of large frequency difference with a mode-locked laser.
          Optics Letters, 24:881-883, 1999.

 
9
         J. Reichert, R. Holzwarth, Th. Udem, and T.W. Haensch.
Measuring the frequency difference of light with mode-locked lasers.
Optics Communications, 172:59-68, 1999.

10
          M. Prevedelli, T. Freegarde, and T.W. Haemsch.
          Phase locking of grating-tuned diode lasers.
         Applied Physics B, 60:S241-S248, 1995.
11
         L. Ricci, M. Weidemueller, T. Esslinger, and T.W. Haensch.
Optics Communications, 117:541-549, 1995.



Some published papers on violent acceleration

Strategic Initiative: Letter of Intent: "Institute for Nonlinear-Laser Studies"



















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Last update: 11/2/2005

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