• DocumentCode
    3688090
  • Title

    Multi-GeV experiments with the Petawatt class BELLA laser

  • Author

    W.P. Leemans;A.J. Gonsalves;K. Nakamura;H.-S. Mao;C. Toth;J. Daniels;D. Mittelberger;C.B. Schroeder;C. Benedetti;S.S. Bulanov;J.-L. Vay;C.G.R. Geddes;E.H. Esarey

  • Author_Institution
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    59
  • Lastpage
    60
  • Abstract
    Acceleration of electrons using intense laser pulses that excite multi-gigavolt fields in plasmas will be described and the path forward to practical accelerators. Experiments with the PetaWatt 1 Hz BELLA-laser at LBNL will be discussed.
  • Keywords
    "Security","Hydrogen"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2015
  • ISSN
    1092-8081
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2015.7323524
  • Filename
    7323524