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Anomalous transmission of an ultrashort ionizing laser pulse through a thin foil
G Ferrante1, M Zarcone, S A Uryupin
1Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia and Dipartimento di Fisica e Tecnologie Relative, Viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo, Italy.
Physical Review Letters
|October 4, 2003
Abstract:
The formation of a highly anisotropic photoelectron velocity distribution as a result of the interaction of a powerful ultrashort laser pulse with a thin foil is found to yield a large skin-layer depth and an anomalous increase of the transmission coefficient. The physical reason for the effect is the influence of the incident wave magnetic field, through the Lorenz force, on the electron kinetics in the skin layer.
