Quantum Radiation in Ultra-Intense Laser Pulses

K. Felix Mackenroth (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XIV, 175 Seiten

2016 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-38390-3 (ISBN)

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Scientific advances and several technical breakthroughs have led to a remarkable increase in available laser intensities over the past decades. In available ultra-intense laser fields, photon fluxes may become so high that free charge carriers interact coherently with several of the field's photons. In this thesis such nonlinear interactions are investigated for the prime example of radiation emission by electrons scattered from intense laser pulses of arbitrary temporal structure. To this end, nonlinear quantum field theory is employed taking the interaction with the laser into account exactly. After an in-depth introduction to classical particle dynamics as well as quantum field theory in nonlinearly intense laser fields the emission of one and two photons is explicitly analyzed. The results are then translated to viable technical applications, such as a scheme for the determination of the carrier-envelope phase of ultra-intense laser pulses and a proposal for detecting the strongly suppressed two-photon signal.

The author began his physics studies at the University of Constance in 2003, where in 2004/05 he was elected as student member of the Physics faculty council. After the intermediate examination in 2005 he moved to Heidelberg University, where he held several positions as research assistant in the University's Institute for Environmental Physics and the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing. In 2007 he completed a six-month industrial internship at the BASF AG. In 2009 he was awarded his Physics diploma from Heidelberg University and started his PhD project at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics.

Interaction of Electrons with Laser Fields.- Nonlinear Single Compton Scattering.- Nonlinear Double Compton Scattering.- Numerical Integration of Strongly Oscillating Functions.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.09.2016
Reihe/Serie	Springer Theses
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 175 p. 41 illus., 17 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Elektrodynamik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
Schlagworte	Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter • Carrier-Envelope Phase Effects in Laser Pulses • Classical electrodynamics • Coherent Emission of Two Photons • Dynamics of Charge Carriers in Strong • Electricity, electromagnetism and magnetism • Electromagnetic fields • Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory • Nonlinear Compton Scattering • Nonlinear Quantum Field Theory • Nonlinear Thomson Scattering • optical physics • Photon Emission by Electrons • Physics • Physics and Astronomy • Plasma physics • Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum fie • Stationary Phase Approximation in Quantum Field Th • Stationary Phase Approximation in Quantum Field Theory • Strong-Field QED • Ultra-Intense Laser Physics
ISBN-10	3-319-38390-6 / 3319383906
ISBN-13	978-3-319-38390-3 / 9783319383903
Zustand	Neuware