Plasma Discretness Effects in the Presence of an Intense, Ultrashort Laser Pulse
Authors: V. Savchenko and N. Fisch
Discrete effects of the plasma irradiated by an ultrashort, intense laser pulse are investigated. Although, for most plasmas of interest, the damping of the laser pulse is due to collective plasma effects, in certain regimes the energy absorbed in the plasma microfields can be important. A scattering matrix is derived for an electron scattering off an ion in the presence of an intense laser field.