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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 14, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.2771519
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Relativistic high-harmonics generation from overdense plasma surfaces is studied using three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. It is shown that the simple vacuum propagation in the real three-dimensional geometry strongly affects the harmonics spectrum on the optical axis. It may even lead to the formation of attosecond pulses without any special optical filters. To make good use of these effects it is necessary to shape either the laser pulse focal spot, or the surface material in such a way that the S-number of the interaction [see Gordienko and Pukhov, Phys. Plasmas 12, 043109 (2005)] is preserved over the largest possible area. The three-dimensional simulations are carefully compared with the one-dimensional ones. It is shown that the one-dimensional models work well even in cases where the laser is focused to a quite small spot on the harmonics generating surface (sigma approximate to lambda). (C) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
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