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Routes to irreversibility in collective laser–matter interaction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2001

P. MULSER
Affiliation:
Theoretical Quantum Electronic (TQE), Darmstadt University of Technology, Hochschulstr. 4A, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
H. RUHL
Affiliation:
Theoretical Quantum Electronic (TQE), Darmstadt University of Technology, Hochschulstr. 4A, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
J. STEINMETZ
Affiliation:
Theoretical Quantum Electronic (TQE), Darmstadt University of Technology, Hochschulstr. 4A, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
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Abstract

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Collective absorption, so far determined by numerical simulations, is explained in physical terms for cold and warm plasma. After deducing a few general relations for flat targets, interface phase mixing and nonadiabatic electron acceleration in the skin layer are identified as the main physical processes leading to irreversibility, that is, to absorption.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press