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
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"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7399665
