Amplification of light during the scattering of a relativistic electron by a nucleus in a moderately strong field of a circularly polarized light wave

The amplification (attenuation) factor of an electromagnetic wave during the scattering of a relativistic electron by a nucleus in a moderately strong field of a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave is studied theoretically. The effect of amplification of an electromagnetic field is discovered in a certain interval of polar angles of the incident electron; this interval of angles essentially depends on the electron energy and the field intensity. It is shown that the amplification of a field attains its maximum for nonrelativistic electrons in the range of medium fields. As the electron energy increases, the amplification decreases and vanishes for ultrarelativistic electrons. An increase in the field intensity for a given electron energy also leads to a slow decrease in the amplification of a field. At high intensities of the wave, the effect of amplification vanishes. It is shown that, in the range of optical frequencies for medium fields (F ～ 10⁶V/cm), the amplification factor of laser light may amount to about μ ～ 10^?1 cm^?1 for sufficiently high-power electron beams.     

Magnetooptical force in the resonance field formed by elliptically polarized light waves

The screening of the Coulomb interaction is studied with regard to Friedel oscillations in multicomponent electron plasma structure. A double quantum well (QW) and a superlattice are considered. The groundstate energy of a donor (exciton) in a double quantum well is calculated by a variational method as a function of the population of subbands.     

Evolution of an intense elliptically polarized electromagnetic wave in underdense plasmas

An elliptically polarized electromagnetic wave in an underdense plasma acquires a longitudinal component of the electric field which oscillates as even harmonics of the fundamental frequency. The phase shift between transverse field components and the wave amplitudes exhibit nonlinear oscillations.     

Features of magneto-optical resonances in an elliptically polarized traveling light wave

The parameters of nonlinear absorption magneto-optical resonances in the Hanle configuration have been studied as functions of the ellipticity of a traveling light wave. It has been found that these parameters (amplitude, width, and amplitude-to-width ratio) depend strongly on the polarization of the light wave. In particular, the resonance amplitude can increase by more than an order of magnitude when the polarization changes from linear to optimal elliptic. It has been shown that this effect is associated with the Doppler frequency shift for atoms in a gas. The theoretical results have been corroborated in experiments in Rb vapor.     

Modulational instability of elliptically polarized transverse electromagnetic wave in a cold plasma

Modulational instability of an elliptically polarized transverse wave in a cold plasma is investigated by the use of Whitham's method of averaged Lagrangian including relativistic corrections. Instability condition and amplitude dependent frequency shift are derived.The authors wish to thank the referee for his valuable suggestion to improve the paper. The award of a Junior Research Fellowship to one of the authors (S.Sihi) by CSIR, India is gratefully acknowledged.     

Multiple scattering of elliptically polarized light in two-dimensional medium with large inhomogeneities

For elliptically polarized light incident on a two-dimensional medium with large inhomogeneities, the Stokes parameters of scattered waves are calculated. Multiple scattering is assumed to be sharply anisotropic. The degree of polarization of scattered radiation is shown to be a nonmonotonic function of depth when the incident wave is circularly polarized or its polarization vector is not parallel to the symmetry axis of the inhomogeneities.     

Optical orientation of atoms in spontaneous Raman scattering of elliptically polarized light

A general approach to the problem of spontaneous transfer of light-induced anisotropy in the scheme of Raman scattering of resonance elliptically polarized light is developed. Depending on the type of the field-excited (a)?(b) transition, the stationary distribution of atoms over the sublevels of the final level (c) coupled with the excited level only by the (b)→(c) spontaneous transition is either isotropic and does not depend on field parameters or anisotropic. In the latter case, the anisotropy is determined by both field polarization and (at fairly large level momentum values) field detuning and intensity.     

Energy of a nondegenerate nonrelativistic electron gas polarized by a magnetic field

The mean kinetic energy density has been determined for a nondegenerate nonrelativistic magnetized electron system having a given concentrationn _e and with correction for the change in kinetic energy due to the Pauli principle. Brest State University. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 11, pp. 97–101, November, 1998.     

Resonant scattering of an electron by a muon in the field of light wave

In the frame of the Born approximation we theoretically investigate resonant scattering of an electron by a muon in the field of elliptically polarized electromagnetic wave in the general relativistic case. It is studied kinematics of a scattering of an electron in resonant region. It is derived the expressions for the amplitude and the cross-section of the resonant scattering of an electron by a muon when the invariant intensity parameter of the laser field is small (η_e ≪1). It is demonstrated that the resonant cross-section of a scattering may be several orders of magnitude higher than the cross-section of a scattering in the absence of the external field.     

Radioelectric effect in a superlattice under the action of an elliptically polarized electromagnetic wave

The density of the current associated with the drag of charge carriers in a superlattice by an elliptically polarized electromagnetic wave is calculated. Two cases of the mutual orientation of the Umov-Poynting vector and the superlattice axis, i.e., their parallel and perpendicular orientations, are analyzed. It is shown that, for the parallel orientation, the radioelectric effect can change sign. The influence of the longitudinal dc electric field on the radioelectric effect is investigated under the conditions where a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave propagates along the superlattice axis. The current density is studied as a function of the electric field strength and the electromagnetic wave intensity. It is demonstrated that the direction of the electric current is changed at specific values of the dc field strength and the wave intensity.     

Resonance radiation in electromagnetic wave scattering by a fast electron in the external magnetic field

The resonance radiation in Compton scattering of an electromagnetic wave by a fast relativistic electron moving in a given magnetic field is investigated with allowance for deceleration by the radiation. A general expression for the electric field of an arbitrarily polarized scattered wave is derived within the framework of small-perturbation theory. It is shown that the resonance peak in the scattering cross-section is caused by the small radiation friction. The dependence of the resonance line width on the characteristic parameters of the problem is examined. The scattering of a given polarized wave is considered, and the degree of linear polarization of the radiated wave under resonance is determined.Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics, Armenian Academy of Sciences, Erevan. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 38, No. 10, pp. 1001–1011, October, 1995.     

Elastic scattering amplitude of a polarized electron in an arbitrary plane wave field

The elastic scattering amplitude of a polarized electron in an arbitrary plane wave electromagnetic field is obtained by using the method of dispersion relations. Superposition of a constant crossed field and a plane monochromatic wave of elliptic polarization is considered a particular case of giving the field. An anomalous magnetic moment is obtained for the electron in the mentioned field as are also relative contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment due to the transition into the intermediate state with and without spin turnover.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 10, pp. 69–75, October, 1990.     

Compton scattering and electron-atom scattering in an elliptically polarized laser field of relativistic radiation power

Presently available laser sources can yield powers for which the ponderomotive energy of an electrons can be equal to or even larger than the rest energy mc ² of an electron. Therefore it has become of interest to consider fundamental radiation-induced or assisted processes in such powerful laser fields. In the present work we consider laser-induced Compton scattering and laser-assisted electron atom scattering in such fields, assuming that the laser beam has arbitrary elliptic polarization. We investigate in detail the angular and polarisation dependence of the differential cross-sections of the two laser-induced or laser-assisted nonlinear processes as a function of the order N of absorbed or emitted laser photons . The present work is a generalization of our previous analysis of Compton scattering and electron-atom scattering in a linearly polarized laser field [Phys. Rev. A 65, 022712 and 033408 (2002)].Received: 3 November 2002, Published online: 29 April 2003PACS: 34.50.Rk Laser-modified scattering and reactions - 34.80.Qb Laser-modified scattering - 32.80.Wr Other multiphoton processes     

Extracting the phase distribution of the electron wave packet ionized by an elliptically polarized laser pulse

We use an interferometic scheme to extract the phase distribution of the electron wave packet from above-threshold ionization in elliptically polarized laser fields. In this scheme, an electron wave packet released from a circularly polarized laser pulse acts as a reference wave and interferes with the electron wave packet ionized by a time-delayed counter-rotating elliptically polarized laser field. The generated vortex-shaped interference pattern in the photoelectron momentum distribution enables us to extract the phase distribution of the electron wave packet in the elliptically polarized laser pulse with high precision. By artificially screening the ionic potential at different ranges when solving the time-dependent Schördinger equation, we find that the angle-dependent phase distribution of the electron wave packet in the elliptically polarized laser field shows an obvious angular shift as compared to the strong-field approximation, whose value is the same as the attoclock shift. We also show that the amplitude of the angle-dependent phase distribution is sensitive to the ellipticity of the laser pulse, providing an alternative way to precisely calibrate the laser ellipticity in the attoclock measurement.     

Influence of an intense pulsed electromagnetic field on nonresonant scattering of a photon by an electron for the nonrelativistic energy

The theory of nonresonant scattering of a photon by an electron in the field of an intense pulsed light wave is developed. The approximation when a pulse width is considerably greater than the characteristic time of wave oscillation is considered. The nonresonant kinematic region is determined. The general relativistic expression for the nonresonant cross-section is derived for the range of the external field intensities if η ₀ ? 1, η₀ ² ? 1 (see Eq. (12)) is valid. The obtained differential cross-section of the process has form of a sum over partial differential cross-sections. Each of them corresponds to the process with emission (absorption) of a certain number of wave photons. It is shown, that for nonrelativistic energy the cross-section summed over all possible partial processes differs considerably from the cross-section of Compton scattering if the external field is absent and may exceed the latter over than 200%.     

Kinetics of atoms in the field produced by elliptically polarized waves

The kinetics of atoms with degenerate energy levels in the field produced by elliptically polarized waves is considered in the semiclassical approximation. Analytic expressions for the force acting on an atom and for the diffusion coefficient in the momentum space are derived for the optical transition J _g =1/2→J _e = 1/2 in the slow atom approximation. These expressions are valid for an arbitrary one-dimensional configuration of the light field and for an arbitrary intensity. The peculiarities of the atomic kinetics are investigated in detail; these peculiarities are associated with ellipticity of light waves and are absent in particular configurations formed by circularly or linearly polarized waves, which were considered earlier.     

Neutrino oscillations in the field of a linearly polarized electromagnetic wave

Neutrino oscillations ν _iL ? ν _jR in the field of a linearly polarized electromagnetic wave are studied on the basis of a recently proposed effective Hamiltonian that describes the evolution of a spin in an arbitrary electromagnetic field. The condition of resonance amplification of the oscillations is analyzed in detail. A method is developed for qualitatively studying solutions to the equation of neutrino evolution in the resonance region. This method can be used to explore neutrino oscillations in fields of various configurations.