Strong field laser physics made tremendous progress in the recent years, which calls for new experiments and new theoretical proposals for observing interesting properties in laser-matter interaction. One interesting effect is electron diffraction at the optical grating formed by the counter-propagating laser beams of a standing light wave.
Electron diffraction at a standing light wave
We are investigating relativistic quantum dynamics (the Dirac equation) and numerical solution techiques for the quantum dynamics to understand fundamental phenomena in this effect. The questions range from electron spin dynamics and radiation effects to negative energy state dynamics in the single particle picture.
