Electron Acceleration by a Bichromatic Chirped Laser Pulse in Underdense Plasmas

Abstract

A theoretical study of laser and plasma based electron acceleration is presented. An effective model has been used, in which the presence of an underdense plasma has been taken account via its index of refraction $n_{m}$. In the confines of this model, the basic phenomena can be studied by numerically solving the classical relativistic equations of motion. The key idea of this paper is the application of chirped, bichromatic laser fields. We investigated the advantages and disadvantages of mixing the second harmonic to the original $\lambda = 800 \, \mathrm{nm}$ wavelength pulse. We performed calculations both for plane wave and Gaussian pulses.