Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5477756 | Matter and Radiation at Extremes | 2016 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
The radiation reaction effects on electron dynamics in counter-propagating circularly polarized laser beams are investigated through the linearization theorem and the results are in great agreement with numeric solutions. For the first time, the properties of fixed points in electron phase-space were analyzed with linear stability theory, showing that center nodes will become attractors if the classical radiation reaction is considered. Electron dynamics are significantly affected by the properties of the fixed points and the electron phase-space densities are found to be increasing exponentially near the attractors. The density growth rates are derived theoretically and further verified by particle-in-cell simulations, which can be detected in experiments to explore the effects of radiation reaction qualitatively. The attractor can also facilitate realizing a series of nanometer-scaled flying electron slices via adjusting the colliding laser frequencies.
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Authors
Zheng Gong, Ronghao Hu, Yinren Shou, Bin Qiao, Chiaer Chen, Furong Xu, Xiantu He, Xueqing Yan,