Experiments with Counter-propagating Laser Pulses at Relativistic Intensities

Ben Liesfeld; Jens Bernhardt; Kay-Uwe Amthor; Heinrich Schwoerer; Roland Sauerbrey

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies
Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2005),
paper JThB1

Experiments with Counter-propagating Laser Pulses at Relativistic Intensities

Ben Liesfeld, Jens Bernhardt, Kay-Uwe Amthor, Heinrich Schwoerer, and Roland Sauerbrey

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2005

Baltimore, Maryland United States
22–27 May 2005
ISBN: 1-55752-770-9

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High Intensity Laser Interactions I (JThB)

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B. Liesfeld, J. Bernhardt, K. Amthor, H. Schwoerer, and R. Sauerbrey, "Experiments with Counter-propagating Laser Pulses at Relativistic Intensities," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies, Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2005), paper JThB1.

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Abstract

We demonstrate the precise spatial and temporal overlap of two counter-propagating, focused laser pulses at intensities above the relativistic threshold. In a first experiment a single-shot autocorrelation was carried out. Further applications are discussed.

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