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Ponderomotive energy

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In strong field laser physics, the term Ponderomotive Energy refers to the cycle averaged quiver energy of a free electron in an E-field as given by,

Where e is the electron charge, Ea is the linearly polarised electric field amplitude, ω02 is the laser carrier frequency and m is the electron mass.

In terms of the laser intensity I, it reads more simply , provided that atomic units are used (and even then a factor may be missing?). Otherwise, using , it reads less simply .

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