from High Intensity Laser–Nanofoil Interactions
by
Daniel Kiefer
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
A dense sheet of electrons accelerated to close to the speed of light can act as a tuneable mirror that can generate bright bursts of laser-like radiation in the short wavelength range simply via the reflection of a counter-propagating laser pulse. This thesis investigates the generation of such a...