We have conducted particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of a linearly polarized intensive laser pulse with two different envelopes propagating through a homogeneous fully ionized cold plasma. It is shown that the amplitude of the wake field depends on laser wavelength, pulse duration, electron number density and envelope shape. We have also simulated the effect of applying a longitudinal magnetic field on the wake field excitation process. It is observed that magnetic field enhances the wake field and increases its intensity in all cases. Our results are in agreement with the analytical results presented by Askari and Shahidani [Opt. Laser Technol. 45, 613-619 (2013)] and can help choosing the optimum values of affecting laser and plasma parameters in order to reach high accelerating wake electric fields.keywords: laser pulse, wake field excitation, particle-in-cell (PIC), magnetized plasma pacS: 02.60. Cb, 52.25.Xz, 52,
In this paper, we have simulated the excitation of wake fields in the interaction of an intensive laser pulses having Half-Sine and Gaussian time envelopes with a fully ionized cold plasma using particle in cell (PIC) method. We investigated the dependency of wake filed amplitude to different laser and plasma parameters such as laser wavelength, pulse duration and electron number density. In addition, the effect of employing a longitudinal magnetic field on the intensity of wake field is studied. It has been seen that the wake field intensity is enhanced in the presence of a magnetic field for both Half-Sine and Gaussian shape pulses. Our aim has been finding optimum values of different parameters for which higher accelerating wake electric fields can be obtained.
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