Fokker–Planck simulations of interactions of femtosecond laser pulses with dense plasmas

The interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with solid-state density plasmas in regime of normal skin effect is investigated by means of numerical simulation. For short-wavelength lasers and laser pulses with length ≲ 120 fs full width at half maximum, the regime of normal skin effect is shown to hold for peak intensities up to 10 17 W/cm 2 . The basic characteristics of the interaction are revealed and certain departures from simplistic models...