Inverse faraday effect magnetic field generation in laser induced plasma

Laser plasma interactions with high intensity laser pulses can produce high magnetic fields in the 10's of MG range. One technique for generating high magnetic fields in under dense plasmas is via the Inverse Faraday Effect (IFE) which has been shown to induce axial magnetic fields in the MG range using circularly polarized light [1]. It is also proposed that similar fields could be induced using linearly polarized light where higher order angular momentum modes [2] are employed to couple the required angular momentum to the electrons. We wish to study this magnetic field generation in under dense plasma and are carrying out a simulation study of the expected fields.