Single cycle thin film compressor opening the door to Zeptosecond-Exawatt physics
Abstract
This article demonstrates a new compression scheme that has the potential to compress a high energy pulse as high as a few hundred Joules in a pulse as short as one optical cycle at 0.8 μm producing a true ultra-relativistic λ3 pulse. This pulse would have a focused intensity of 1024 W/cm2 or a0 of 1000. On interaction with a solid target, this pulse could form an efficient, 10%, relativistic mirror that could further compress the pulse to the atto-zeptosecond regime, with an upshifted wavelength of 1-10 keV. This technique could be a watershed enabling the compression of petawatt pulses into the exawatt and zeptosecond regime possible.
- Publication:
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European Physical Journal Special Topics
- Pub Date:
- May 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1140/epjst/e2014-02171-5
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1402.5676
- Bibcode:
- 2014EPJST.223.1181M
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Optics
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, 6 figures