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
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"
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2015
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2015.7323524
