A study of the Thomson scattering of radiation by a relativistic electron of a tightly-focused, co-propagating femtosecond laser beam

Generation of a few femtosecond keV x-ray pulse via interaction of a tightly focused laser copropagating with a relativistic electron bunch

“…The simulation was conducted using previously described code [24] using the laser fields derived in [28,29] up to 7th order of ". The dynamics of each electron in an electron bunch was calculated using the relativistic Newton's equation of motion.…”

“…The radiation from a tightly focused laser with a copropagating electron has radiation characteristics that are totally different from those of a loosely focused laser interacting with an electron beam [24,25]; when a laser is tightly focused, the paraxial approximation (the electric and magnetic field transverse to the propagation direction) is not valid [26,27] because the electric and magnetic field have nonparaxial components, some of which are parallel to the propagation direction. The temporal and spatial shapes of the electric field are not the same as those of the magnetic field.…”

Generation of attosecond X-ray pulses via Thomson scattering of counter-propagating laser pulses

“…The characteristics of radiation emitted by the accelerated electron in an intense laser field based on the Thomson scattering have been investigated widely (Leubner, 1981a(Leubner, , 1981bPuntajer & Leubner, 1989;Esarey et al, 1993;Tian et al, 2006;Gao, 2004;Lan et al, 2005Lan et al, , 2007Lau et al, 2003;Lee et al, 2003aLee et al, , 2003bLee et al, , 2008Tomassini et al, 2005). The earliest thorough analytical and numerical investigations of nonlinear Thomson scattering of intense laser fields were presented by Leubner (1981aLeubner ( , 1981b.…”

Relativistic Nonlinear Thomson Scattering: Toward Intense Attosecond Pulse

“…In fact, for wider exploration and manipulation of electron dynamics in a vast spectrum of natural phenomena, attosecond or a few fs keV pulses are demanded. Several schemes have been proposed and/or demonstrated to generate an ultrashort keV xray pulse: the relativistic Doppler shift of a backscattered laser pulse by a relativistic electron beam Hartemann, 1998;Esarey et al, 1993a;Chung et al, 2009), the harmonic frequency upshift of a laser pulse by relativistic nonlinear motion of electrons (Vachaspati, 1962;Brown & Kibble, 1964;Esarey et al,, 1992;Chen et al, 1998Chen et al, , 2000Ueshima et al, 1999;Kaplan & Shkolnikov, 2002;Banerjee et al, 2002;Lee et al, 2003aLee et al, , 2003bLee et al, , 2005Lee et al, , 2008Phuoc et al, 2003;Kim et al, 2009), high order harmonic generation in the interaction of intense laser pulse with solids (Linde et al, 1995(Linde et al, , 1996Norreys et al, 1996;Lichters et al, 1996;Tarasevitch et al, 2000) and x-ray laser using inner shell atomic transitions (Kim et al, 1999(Kim et al, , 2001. Ultrafast high-intensity X-rays can be generated from the interaction of high intensity femtosecond laser via Compton backscattering (Hartemann et al, 2005), relativistic nonlinear Thomson scattering (Ueshima et al, 1999;Kaplan & Shkolnikov 2002;Banerjee et al, 2002) and laser-produced betatron radiation (Phuoc et al, 2007).…”

“…There are growing demands for new shorter pulses than 10 fs. The generation of intense attosecond or femtosecond keV lights via Thomson scattering (Lee et al, 2008;Kim et al, 2009) is attractive, because the radiation is intense and quasimonochromatic. This radiation may be also utilized in medical (Girolami et al, 1996) and nuclear physics (Weller & Ahmed, 2003) area of science and technology.…”