CHINESE JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS ›› 2008, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (1): 43-50.

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Development and Application of Multi-dimensional Particle-in-cell Codes for Investigation of Laser Plasma Interactions

CHEN Min, SHENG Zhengming, ZHENG Jun, MA Yanyun, ZHANG Jie   

  1. Laboratory of Optical Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
  • Received:2006-10-19 Revised:2007-03-27 Online:2008-01-25 Published:2008-01-25

Abstract: A multi-dimensional particle-in-cell code KLAP is introduced. Field ionization, impact ionization and two body collision are considered in a one-dimensional code. Moving window technology is used in a three-dimensional code to study laser wakefield acceleration in GeV region. Terahertz radiation, laser propagation in neutral gas medium, surface electron acceleration as well as GeV electron generation in laser wakefield acceleration are studied.

Key words: particle-in-cell simulation, plasma, ultrashort and uhraintense laser, parallel computing, moving window

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