Published September 26, 1994 | Version v1
Journal article

Wake fields in semiconductor plasmas

  • 1. International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy)
  • 2. Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712 (United States)

Description

It is shown that an intense short laser pulse propagating through a semiconductor plasma will generate longitudinal Langmuir waves in its wake. The measurable wake field can be used as a diagnostic to study nonlinear optical phenomena. For narrow gap semiconductors (for example, InSb) with Kane-type dispersion relation, the system can simulate, at currently available laser powers, the physics underlying wake-field accelerators

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
73
Journal Issue
13
Journal Page Range
p. 1837-1840.
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO