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...

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Main Authors: S. Banerjee, S. Y. Kalmykov, N. D. Powers, G. Golovin, V. Ramanathan, N. J. Cunningham, K. J. Brown, S. Chen, I. Ghebregziabher, B. A. Shadwick, D. P. Umstadter, B. M. Cowan, D. L. Bruhwiler, A. Beck, E. Lefebvre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2013-03-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.16.031302