TY - GEN
T1 - Demonstration of flying mirror with improved efficiency
AU - Pirozhkov, Alexander S.
AU - Kando, Masaki
AU - Esirkepov, Timur Zh
AU - Fukuda, Yuji
AU - Chen, Li Ming
AU - Daito, Izuru
AU - Ogura, Koichi
AU - Homma, Takayuki
AU - Hayashi, Yukio
AU - Kotaki, Hideyuki
AU - Sagisaka, Akito
AU - Mori, Michiaki
AU - Koga, James K.
AU - Kawachi, Tetsuya
AU - Kiriyama, Hiromitsu
AU - Okada, Hajime
AU - Kawase, Keigo
AU - Kameshima, Takashi
AU - Nishimori, Nobuyuki
AU - Ragozin, Eugene N.
AU - Faenov, Anatoly Ya
AU - Pikuz, Tatiana A.
AU - Kimura, Toyoaki
AU - Tajima, Toshiki
AU - Daido, Hiroyuki
AU - Kato, Yoshiaki
AU - Bulanov, Sergei V.
PY - 2009/11/25
Y1 - 2009/11/25
N2 - A strongly nonlinear wake wave driven by an intense laser pulse can act as a partially reflecting relativistic mirror (the flying mirror) [S. V. Bulanov, et al. Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute, No. 6, 9 (1991); S. V. Bulanov, et al., Phys Rev. Lett. 91, 085001 (2003)]. Upon reflection fi'om such mirror, a counter-propagating optical-fi'equency laser pulse is directly converted into high-fi'equency radiation, with a fi'cquency multiplication factor ∼ 4y2 (the double Doppler effect). We present the results of recent experiment in which the photon number in the reflected radiation was at least several thousand times larger than in our proof-of-principle experiment [M. Kando, et al., Phys Rev. Lett. 99, 135001 (2007); A. S. Pirozhkov, et al., Phys Plasmas 14, 123106 (2007)]. The flying mirror holds promise of generating intense coherent ultrashort XUV and x-ray pulses that inherit their temporal shape and polarization from the original optical-frequency (laser) pulses. Furthermore, the reflected radiation bears important information about the reflecting wake wave itself, which can be used for its diagnostics.
AB - A strongly nonlinear wake wave driven by an intense laser pulse can act as a partially reflecting relativistic mirror (the flying mirror) [S. V. Bulanov, et al. Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute, No. 6, 9 (1991); S. V. Bulanov, et al., Phys Rev. Lett. 91, 085001 (2003)]. Upon reflection fi'om such mirror, a counter-propagating optical-fi'equency laser pulse is directly converted into high-fi'equency radiation, with a fi'cquency multiplication factor ∼ 4y2 (the double Doppler effect). We present the results of recent experiment in which the photon number in the reflected radiation was at least several thousand times larger than in our proof-of-principle experiment [M. Kando, et al., Phys Rev. Lett. 99, 135001 (2007); A. S. Pirozhkov, et al., Phys Plasmas 14, 123106 (2007)]. The flying mirror holds promise of generating intense coherent ultrashort XUV and x-ray pulses that inherit their temporal shape and polarization from the original optical-frequency (laser) pulses. Furthermore, the reflected radiation bears important information about the reflecting wake wave itself, which can be used for its diagnostics.
KW - Coherent x-ray source
KW - Relativistic flying mirror
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U2 - 10.1063/1.3204536
DO - 10.1063/1.3204536
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70450079659
SN - 9780735406902
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
SP - 274
EP - 284
BT - Laser-Driven Relativistic Plasmas Applied to Science, Industry and Medicine - The 2nd International Symposium
T2 - 2nd International Symposium on Laser-Driven Relativistic Plasmas Applied to Science, Industry and Medicine
Y2 - 19 January 2009 through 23 January 2009
ER -