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Kando, M; Pirozhkov, A S; Kawase, K; Esirkepov, T Zh; Fukuda, Y; Kiriyama, H; Okada, H; Daito, I; Kameshima, T; Hayashi, Y; Kotaki, H; Mori, M; Koga, J K; Daido, H; Faenov, A Ya; Pikuz, T; Ma, J; Chen, L-M; Ragozin, E N; Kawachi, T; Kato, Y; Tajima, T; Bulanov, S V
Physical review letters, 12/2009, Volume: 103, Issue: 23Journal Article
Laser light reflection by a relativistically moving electron density modulation (flying mirror) in a wake wave generated in a plasma by a high intensity laser pulse is investigated experimentally. A counterpropagating laser pulse is reflected and upshifted in frequency with a multiplication factor of 37-66, corresponding to the extreme ultraviolet wavelength. The demonstrated flying mirror reflectivity (from 3 x 10(-6) to 2 x 10(-5), and from 1.3 x 10(-4) to 0.6 x 10(-3), for the photon number and pulse energy, respectively) is close to the theoretical estimate for the parameters of the experiment.
