Analytical results for non-linear Compton scattering in short intense laser pulses

Abstract

We study in detail the strong-field QED process of non-linear Compton scattering in short intense plane wave laser pulses of circular polarization. Our main focus is placed on how the spectrum of the back-scattered laser light depends on the shape and duration of the initial short intense pulse. Although this pulse shape dependence is very complicated and highly non-linear, and has never been addressed explicitly, our analysis reveals that all the dependence on the laser pulse shape is contained in a class of three-parameter master integrals. Here we present completely analytical expressions for the non-linear Compton spectrum in terms of these master integrals. Moreover, we analyse the universal behaviour of the shape of the spectrum for very high harmonic lines.

arXiv comment15 pages, 6 figures

References in corpus (17)

• Extremely high-intensity laser interactions with fundamental quantum systems
• Ultra-high brilliance multi-MeV $\gamma$-ray beam from non-linear Thomson scattering
• Nonlinear Compton scattering in ultra-short laser pulses
• Non-Linear Compton Scattering of Ultrashort and Ultraintense Laser Pulses
• Signatures of High-Intensity Compton Scattering
• Trident pair production in strong laser pulses
• Determining the carrier-envelope phase of intense few-cycle laser pulses
• Compton Process in Intense Short Laser Pulses
• Photon polarisation in electron-seeded pair-creation cascades
• Testing numerical implementations of strong field electrodynamics
• Quasi-monoenergetic femtosecond photon sources from Thomson Scattering using laser plasma accelerators and plasma channels
• On two-dimensional Bessel functions
• Narrowband inverse Compton scattering x-ray sources at high laser intensities
• Exact final state integrals for strong field QED
• Asymmetries of azimuthal photon distributions in non-linear Compton scattering in ultra-short intense laser pulses
• Non-linear Compton scattering of ultrahigh-intensity laser pulses
• Caustic structures in the spectrum of x-ray Compton scattering off electrons driven by a short intense laser pulse

Cited by in corpus (32)

• Advances in QED with intense background fields
• Charged particle motion and radiation in strong electromagnetic fields
• Implementing nonlinear Compton scattering beyond the local constant field approximation
• An extended locally constant field approximation for nonlinear Compton scattering
• Theory of Radiative Electron Polarization in Strong Laser Fields
• High-energy behavior of strong-field QED in an intense plane wave
• The locally monochromatic approximation to QED in intense laser fields
• Semiclassical picture for electron-positron photoproduction in strong laser fields
• Benchmarking semiclassical approaches to strong-field QED: nonlinear Compton scattering in intense laser pulses
• From local to nonlocal: higher fidelity simulations of photon emission in intense laser pulses
• First-order strong-field QED processes in a tightly focused laser beam
• Radiation beaming in the quantum regime
• Unveiling the transverse formation length of nonlinear Compton scattering
• Higher fidelity simulations of nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair creation in intense laser pulses
• Temporal laser pulse shape effects in nonlinear Thomson scattering
• Pulse envelope effect on nonlinear Compton scattering in electron-laser collisions
• One-loop vertex correction in a plane wave
• WKB Electron Wave Functions in a Tightly Focused Laser Beam
• Vortex $\gamma$ photon generation via spin-to-orbital angular momentum transfer in nonlinear Compton scattering
• Exact results for scattering on ultra-short plane wave backgrounds
• First-order strong-field QED processes including the damping of particles states
• Laser pulse-length effects in trident pair production
• Nonlinear Compton scattering and nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production including the damping of particle states
• High-resolution modeling of nonlinear Compton scattering in focused laser pulses
• Impact of laser polarization on q-exponential photon tails in non-linear Compton scattering
• Generation of Ultrarelativistic Vortex Leptons with Large Orbital Angular Momenta
• The electron mass shift in an intense plane wave
• Quasiclassical representation of the Volkov propagator and the tadpole diagram in a plane wave
• Dynamics of relativistic vortex electrons in external laser fields
• Nonlinear dynamics of a charged particle in a strong non-null knot wave background
• Strong-field QED in Furry-picture momentum-space formulation: Ward identities and Feynman diagrams
• From theory to precision modelling of strong-field QED in the transition regime