Photon kinetic modeling of laser pulse propagation in underdense plasma

A. J. W. Reitsma; R. M. G. M. Trines; R. Bingham; R. A. Cairns; J. T. Mendonca; D. A. Jaroszynski

doi:10.1063/1.2366577

Photon kinetic modeling of laser pulse propagation in underdense plasma

A. J. W. Reitsma, R. M. G. M. Trines, R. Bingham, R. A. Cairns, J. T. Mendonca, D. A. Jaroszynski

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This paper discusses photon kinetic theory, which is a description of the electromagnetic field in terms of classical particles in coordinate and wave number phase space. Photon kinetic theory is applied to the interaction of laser pulses with underdense plasma and the transfer of energy and momentum between the laser pulse and the plasma is described in photon kinetic terms. A comparison is made between a one-dimensional full wave and a photon kinetic code for the same laser and plasma parameters. This shows that the photon kinetic simulations accurately reproduce the pulse envelope evolution for photon frequencies down to the plasma frequency. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.

Original language	English
Number of pages	10
Journal	Physics of Plasmas
Volume	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2366577
Publication status	Published - Nov 2006

Keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC-WAVES
ACCELERATION
ULTRASHORT
GENERATION
SCATTERING
EQUATION
RAMAN

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