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In this chapter, a plasma approach of generating intense chirped pulse will be presented via particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. When a circularly polarized (CP) laser pulse, the driving pulse (DR pulse), interacts with an overdense foil, the whole electron and proton layer is accelerated by light pressure and moves at an ultra-high velocity. With another counter-propagating CP pulse named the scattered pulse (SC pulse) impinging on this high-speed double layer, the SC pulse would be reflected and hence its frequency is strongly Doppler shifted.
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Ji, L. (2014). Extreme Light Field Generation II: Short-Wavelength Single-Cycle Ultra-Intense Laser Pulse. In: Ion acceleration and extreme light field generation based on ultra-short and ultra–intense lasers. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54007-3_5
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