Covariant electron dynamics in two interfering laser beams: analysis of the vacuum beat wave accelerator

Authors
Salamin, YI
Citation
Yi. Salamin, Covariant electron dynamics in two interfering laser beams: analysis of the vacuum beat wave accelerator, PHYS LETT A, 270(3-4), 2000, pp. 115-121
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICS LETTERS A
ISSN journal
03759601 → ACNP
Volume
270
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
2000
Pages
115 - 121
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9601(20000529)270:3-4<115:CEDITI>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
An exact manifestly covariant solution to the equation of motion of a singl e electron in the fields of two plane waves of arbitrary intensities, frequ encies, and polarizations is presented and used to derive the main working equations of the vacuum beat wave accelerator. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B. V. All rights reserved.