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With short-pulse high-power lasers, it is possible via strong focusing to achieve irradiance levels up to 1022 W · cm−2 [1], and with peta-watt level lasers much higher irradiances [2]. At these irradiance levels, the effect of radiation damping on the electron motion in the intense wave can become large [3]. Even with current lasers irradiances reaching the Schwinger limit, 1029 W · cm−2 could be achieved by using counterpropagating laser pulses [4] and ultra-short pulses of relativistically strong electromagnetic waves reflected back at a plasma-vacuum interface [5]. In addition, through coherent radiation effects the damping could be strong even for relatively low irradiance laser pulses interacting with clusters [6]. In this paper, we numerically examine the effect of the interaction of an extremely high irradiance pulse with a high-energy electron.
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Koga, J., Bulanov, S., Esirkepov, T. (2007). Electron Acceleration Under Strong Radiation Damping. In: Watanabe, S., Midorikawa, K. (eds) Ultrafast Optics V. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 132. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49119-6_18
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