Warwick-Plasma / epoch

Particle-in-cell code for plasma physics simulations
https://epochpic.github.io
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effect of both circular polarization and incidence angle #472

Closed mimboch closed 1 year ago

mimboch commented 1 year ago

Hello, I want to see the effect of both circular polarization and incidence angle, for this I'm attaching you my input file to know if I'm right or I should add another parameters.

Another point please, does the laser-target distance have an influence in ion acceleration ? Thank you in advance.

input.txt

Status-Mirror commented 1 year ago

Hi @mimboch

From a quick glace it seems like this will work - but its better to test it first. You can check the Ex, Ey and Ez outputs in a vacuum simulation to see if this has worked.

Physically, the laser-target distance has no effect. In EPOCH, a tightly focused laser may de-focus before reaching the target, so this would affect the laser-solid interaction. Again, I recommend you look at the laser in a vacuum before running a laser-target simulation.

Hope this helps, Stuart