Laser-driven high-power X- and gamma-ray ultra-short pulse source

Details Laser-driven high-power X- and gamma-ray ultra-short pulse source Laser-driven high-power X- and gamma-ray ultra-short pulse source

2008-12-02

arxiv.org/abs/0812.0401v1

Physics

Plasma Physics

8 pages, 5 figures. Presented at the ELI Workshop and School on "Fundamental Physics with Ultra-High Fields" 29.09.-02.10.2008

Scientific paper

A novel ultra-bright high-intensity source of X-ray and gamma radiation is suggested. It is based on the double Doppler effect, where a relativistic flying mirror reflects a counter-propagating electromagnetic radiation causing its frequency multiplication and intensification, and on the inverse double Doppler effect, where the mirror acquires energy from an ultra-intense co-propagating electromagnetic wave. The role of the flying mirror is played by a high-density thin plasma slab accelerating in the radiation pressure dominant regime. Frequencies of high harmonics generated at the flying mirror by a relativistically strong counter-propagating radiation undergo multiplication with the same factor as the fundamental frequency of the reflected radiation, approximately equal to the quadruple of the square of the mirror Lorentz factor.

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