• DocumentCode
    3741707
  • Title

    Vacuum laser acceleration of relativistic electrons using plasma mirror injectors

  • Author

    M. Th?venet;A. Leblanc;S. Kahaly;H. Vincenti;A. Vernier;J. Faure;F. Qu?r?

  • Author_Institution
    Laboratoire d?Optique Appliqu?e, CNRS-ENSTA-Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report the first experimental observation of Vacuum Laser Acceleration of electrons to relativistic energies, by using a plasma mirror to inject electrons in an ultraintense laser field, and thus produce 10 MeV multi-nC bunches.
  • Keywords
    "Plasmas","Mirrors","Acceleration","Laser beams","Measurement by laser beam","Electron beams","Mathematical model"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7399665
  • Filename
    7399665