Electron Injection into Plasma Wake Fields by Colliding Laser Pulses
Journal Article
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· Physical Review Letters
- Beam Physics Branch, Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375-5346 (United States)
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
An injector and accelerator is analyzed that uses three collinear laser pulses in a plasma: an intense pump pulse, which generates a large wake field ({ge}20 GV/m), and two counterpropagating injection pulses. When the injection pulses collide, a slow phase velocity beat wave is generated that injects electrons into the fast wake field for acceleration. Particle tracking simulations in 1D with injection pulse intensities near 10{sup 17} W/cm{sup 2} indicate the production of relativistic electrons with bunch durations as short as 3 fs, energy spreads as small as 0.3{percent}, and densities as high as 10{sup 18} cm{sup {minus}3} . {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}
- OSTI ID:
- 634949
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 79, Issue 14; Other Information: PBD: Oct 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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