A collimated beam of MeV electrons accelerated by a terawatt laser

Author

Wagner, Rene ; Chen, Shih-Yuan ; Maksimchuk, A. ; Dodd, Emma ; Kim, Jae-Kuk ; Umstadter, D.

Author_Institution

Center for Ultrafast Opt. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

7-7 June 1996

Firstpage

70

Abstract

Summary form only given. The field at the focus of a short-pulse, high-power laser is so high that electrons oscillate at nearly the speed of light, giving rise to several interesting, and previously unstudied, effects. For instance, it produces extremely high laser pressure (called the ponderomotive force), which can drive a high-amplitude plasma "wake-field plasma wave", the basis for what is called the laser wake-field accelerator (LWFA).

Keywords

electron beam focusing; electron density; laser beam effects; plasma waves; wakefield accelerators; collimated MeV electron beam acceleration; electron oscillation; high laser pressure; high-amplitude plasma; laser wake-field accelerator; ponderomotive force; short-pulse high-power laser focus field; speed of light; terawatt laser; wake-field plasma wave; Acceleration; Collimators; Electron beams; Gas lasers; Laser beams; Optical pulses; Particle beams; Plasma accelerators; Plasma waves; X-ray lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 1996. QELS '96., Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-444-0

Type

conf

Filename

865583