Spin-Dependent Two-Color Kapitza-Dirac Effects

Authors

Scot McGregor, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Wayne Cheng-Wei Huang, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Herman Batelaan, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Bradley Allan Shadwick, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

ORCID IDs

Wayne Cheng-Wei Huang

Herman Batelaan

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

Summer 8-18-2015

Citation

Physical Review A 92, 023834 (2015)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.92.023834

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Copyright © 2015 American Physical Society. Used by permission.

https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.92.023834

Abstract

In this paper we present an analysis of the spin behavior of electrons propagating through a laser field. We present an experimentally realizable scenario in which spin-dependent effects of the interaction between the laser and the electrons are dominant. The laser interaction strength and incident electron velocity are in the nonrelativistic domain. This analysis may thus lead to novel methods of creating and characterizing spin-polarized nonrelativistic femtosecond electron pulses.