Periodic self-injection of electrons in a few-cycle laser driven oscillating plasma wake

Millijoule-energy few-cycle laser pulses excite the plasma wakefield and accelerate electrons at kilohertz repetition rate, generating mega-electron volt (MeV) electron bunches with femtosecond temporal duration for ultrafast electron diffraction applications. By simulating few-cycle laser pulses in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sa Xu, Jie Zhang, Ning Tang, Sicong Wang, Wei Lu, Zhengyan Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2020-09-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0014691