Figure 3.

(A) Line-out of $E_y$, and (B) line-out of $E_x$ along the laser propagation axis at various times, as noted on the legend. Note that the laser is linearly polarized, along $\widehat{\mathit{y}}$. (C) The left axis shows the maximum field intensity as a function of simulation time; the black dashed baseline denotes the field intensity expected in the focal spot, without the target. The right axis shows with the dashed purple line the amount of laser energy transferred to all target particles, while the solid purple line shows the percentage of the remaining laser field energy, ${\kappa }_{\gamma }$, as a function of time.