Tilted Snowplow Ponderomotive Electron Acceleration With Spatio-Temporally Shaped Ultrafast Laser Pulses

We propose a novel scheme for using the ponderomotive force of a tilted ultrafast laser pulse to accelerate electrons in free space. The tilt of the intensity envelope results from the angular dispersion of the pulse's spectrum and slows down the interaction of the pulse with free electrons. Th...

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Main Authors: Alex M. Wilhelm, Charles G. Durfee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Physics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphy.2019.00066/full