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Numerical Exploration of High Field Plasmonics in Different Scenarios

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High Field Plasmonics

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In this chapter several physical scenarios involving High Field Plasmonics effects are discussed.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For comparison the pressure at the core of the Sun is \({\sim }10^{17}\,\text {Pa}\), according to BS05(AGS,OP) standard solar model [13].

  2. 2.

    This equation first appeared in [18], where spaceship propulsion with a terrestrial laser beam was envisaged as an interesting strategy for interstellar travel. In [18] the author acknowledge that an operational range of \({\sim }0.1\) light year would require a coherent hard x-ray source on Earth with a surface of \(1\,\text {km}^2\) and an x-ray mirror on the spaceship with a total surface of several \(\text {km}^2\), making the realization of this scheme “practically impossible in the next few decades”.

  3. 3.

    We expect a sub-wavelength grating to behave like a perfect mirror at large distances, with just some near-field perturbations(the evanescent modes).

  4. 4.

    These are the standard boundary conditions at an interface between a perfect metal and vacuum. In general, the boundary conditions for EM field at an interface prescribe that the electric field should have a continuous tangential component, while, for the magnetic field, the continuous component should be the perpendicular one. However, in a perfect conductor EM field is zero, thus these components should be zero at the interface.

  5. 5.

    This is due to the fact that \(\omega _p>> \omega _0\) for overdense targets. See Sect. 2.3 for more details.

  6. 6.

    We are in 2D geometry.

  7. 7.

    Not far from the density of completely ionized solid hydrogen.

  8. 8.

    When the simulation was performed, piccante code wasn’t already available.

  9. 9.

    To the knowledge of the author, there isn’t a completely “clean” way to deal with charged particles reaching the borders of the simulation box. An exception is represented by particles reaching a moving border, like when moving window method is used, provided that the border moves at the speed of light.

  10. 10.

    Reflections associated with a translation.

  11. 11.

    i.e. for a grating target if \(x_p\) is the x coordinate of the peaks and \(x_v\) is the x coordinate of the valleys, \(x_{cut}\) is fixed at \((x_p + x_v)/2\).

  12. 12.

    A plasmonic scheme consisting in two juxtaposed cylinders [60].

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Fedeli, L. (2017). Numerical Exploration of High Field Plasmonics in Different Scenarios. In: High Field Plasmonics. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44290-7_6

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