Photon acceleration from rest to the speed of light

Author

Lai, C.H. ; Katsouleas, T. ; Liou, R. ; Mori, W.B. ; Joshi, C. ; Muggli, P. ; Brogle, R. ; Dawson, J.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1995

fDate

1-5 May 1995

Firstpage

640

Abstract

A new mechanism for generating coherent radiation from a laser-ionized gas-filled capacitor array is presented. This scheme directly converts a static electric field of wave number k₀ into coherent radiation pulses. The physical mechanism is analogous to photon acceleration in plasma waves, and in this sense, photons are accelerated from zero frequency (zero energy) to a frequency ωp ²/2k₀c. The photon frequency is tuned by gas pressure and/or capacitor spacing. In this paper we briefly describe the theory of this scheme and then present the preliminary experimental setup and results

Keywords

beam handling techniques; collective accelerators; capacitor spacing; coherent radiation generation; coherent radiation pulses; gas pressure; laser-ionized gas-filled capacitor array; light speed; photon acceleration; photon frequency; plasma waves; static electric field conversion; zero frequency; Acceleration; Capacitors; Frequency; Gas lasers; Ionization; Ionizing radiation; Laser theory; Optical pulses; Plasma accelerators; Plasma waves;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1995., Proceedings of the 1995

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2934-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1995.504742

Filename

504742