Stable, tunable, quasimonoenergetic electron beams produced in a laser wakefield near the threshold for self-injection
Stable operation of a laser-plasma accelerator near the threshold for electron self-injection in the blowout regime has been demonstrated with 25–60 TW, 30 fs laser pulses focused into a 3–4 millimeter length gas jet. Nearly Gaussian shape and high nanosecond contrast of the focused pulse appear to...
Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2013-03-01
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Series: | Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams |
Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.16.031302 |