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Quantum Radiation in Ultra-Intense Laser Pulses

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. K. Felix Mackenroth

    1. Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany

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  • Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg
  • Provides unprecedented insights into quantum dynamics of free charge carriers in intense laser fields
  • Introduces nonlinear QED leading reader to forefront of quantum field theory
  • Develops a powerful stationary phase method applicable to the analysis of any type of photon emission from an electron in an intense laser pulse
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • K. Felix Mackenroth
    Pages 1-20

  3. Interaction of Electrons with Laser Fields

    • K. Felix Mackenroth
    Pages 21-57

  4. Nonlinear Single Compton Scattering

    • K. Felix Mackenroth
    Pages 59-98

  5. Nonlinear Double Compton Scattering

    • K. Felix Mackenroth
    Pages 99-129

  6. Numerical Integration of Strongly Oscillating Functions

    • K. Felix Mackenroth
    Pages 131-139

  7. Summary and Outlook

    • K. Felix Mackenroth
    Pages 141-144

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 145-175
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany

    K. Felix Mackenroth

About the author

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.

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