Relativistic plasma surfaces as an efficient second harmonic generator

M.J.V. Streeter; P.S. Foster; F.H. Cameron; Marco Borghesi; C. Brenner; D.C. Carroll; E. Divall; N.P. Dover; Brendan Dromey; P. Gallegos; J.S. Green; S. Hawkes; C.J. Hooker; Satyabrata Kar; P. McKenna; S.R. Nagel; Z. Najmudin; C.A.J. Palmer; R. Prasad; K.E. Quinn; P.P. Rajeev; A.P.L. Robinson; Lorenzo Romagnani; J. Schreiber; C. Spindloe; Sargis Ter-Avetisyan; O. Tresca; Matthew Zepf; D. Neely

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Relativistic plasma surfaces as an efficient second harmonic generator

M.J.V. Streeter, P.S. Foster, F.H. Cameron, Marco Borghesi, C. Brenner, D.C. Carroll, E. Divall, N.P. Dover, Brendan Dromey, P. Gallegos, J.S. Green, S. Hawkes, C.J. Hooker, Satyabrata Kar, P. McKenna, S.R. Nagel, Z. Najmudin, C.A.J. Palmer, R. Prasad, K.E. QuinnP.P. Rajeev, A.P.L. Robinson, Lorenzo Romagnani, J. Schreiber, C. Spindloe, Sargis Ter-Avetisyan, O. Tresca, Matthew Zepf, D. Neely

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We report on the characterization of the specular reflection of 50 fs laser pulses in the intensity range 10(17)-10(21)Wcm(-2) obliquely incident with p-polarization onto solid density plasmas. These measurements show that the absorbed energy fraction remains approximately constant and that second harmonic generation (SHG) achieves efficiencies of 22 +/- 8% for intensities approaching 10(21)Wcm(-2). A simple model based on the relativistic oscillating mirror concept reproduces the observed intensity scaling, indicating that this is the dominant process involved for these conditions. This method may prove to be superior to SHG by sum frequency mixing in crystals as it is free from dispersion and retains high spatial coherence at high intensity.

Original language	English
Article number	023041
Journal	New Journal of Physics
Volume	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/13/2/023041
Publication status	Published - Feb 2011

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Streeter, M. J. V., Foster, P. S., Cameron, F. H., Borghesi, M., Brenner, C., Carroll, D. C., Divall, E., Dover, N. P., Dromey, B., Gallegos, P., Green, J. S., Hawkes, S., Hooker, C. J., Kar, S., McKenna, P., Nagel, S. R., Najmudin, Z., Palmer, C. A. J., Prasad, R., ... Neely, D. (2011). Relativistic plasma surfaces as an efficient second harmonic generator. New Journal of Physics, 13, Article 023041. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/13/2/023041

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