Forward and Backward Electron Acceleration by Radially Polarized Ultra-Intense Laser Focus Seeded By Field Ionization of High Charge States of Neon

Nour El Houda Hissi, Gregory K. Ngirmang, Joseph Smith +1

Thanks to the fabrication of large aperture phase optics, ultra-intense relativistic laser plasma interaction (RLPI) experiments with complex polarization states are becoming feasi…