Laser-plasma Interactions and generation of trains of ultra-short X-ray pulses

强烈的激光脉冲直接作用在任何物质上都会形成等离子体，一种由电子和离子主导的气体，激光与这些物质的相互作用将产生许多影响，这些影响将通过广泛的计算机建模来研究。本文的主要工作是在驱动激光周期内产生超短强脉冲形式的相干谐波X射线。这些是由激光驱动的电子以相对论速度产生的。其他形式的非线性散射，光转换为高能电子（可能是离子）也要考虑。

Intense laser pulses directed on any matter will form a plasma, a gas dominated by its electrons and ions, and the interaction of the laser light with these will have many effects which are to be studied by extensive computer modeling. The chief work is to be done on coherent harmonic X-ray generation in the form of ultra-short intense spikes separated the driving laser period. These are produced by electrons driven to relativistic speeds by the laser light. Other forms of nonlinear scattering, light conversion to energetic electrons (and maybe ions) are to be looked at as well.