Generation of femtosecond electron bunches and hard-X-rays by ultraintense laser wake field acceleration in a gas jet

Author

Uesaka, M. ; Hosokai, T. ; Kinoshita, K. ; Zhidkov, A.

Author_Institution

Nucl. Eng. Res. Lab., Tokyo Univ., Japan

Volume

4

fYear

2003

fDate

12-16 May 2003

Firstpage

2258

Abstract

Femtosecond electron beams and hard X-rays with λ∼0.1 nm may find various applications in biology, chemistry, and molectronics giving a new time-scale probe analysis. Such short electron beams can be produced in the wake field acceleration by short relativistically intense laser pulses and then Thomson scattering of a second laser pulse can serve for efficient generation of very short X-rays with use of such electron beams.

Keywords

X-ray production; particle beam bunching; particle beam injection; plasma accelerators; plasma simulation; relativistic electron beams; wakefield accelerators; Thomson scattering; biology; chemistry; femtosecond electron beams; femtosecond electron bunches generation; gas jet; hard-X-rays generation; molectronics; particle-in-cell calculation; second laser pulse; self-injection; short X-rays; short relativistic intense laser pulses; time-scale probe analysis; ultraintense laser wake field acceleration; Acceleration; Biochemical analysis; Chemical lasers; Chemistry; Electron beams; Gas lasers; Optical pulse generation; Probes; X-ray lasers; X-ray scattering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2003. PAC 2003. Proceedings of the

ISSN

1063-3928

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7738-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2003.1289084

Filename

1289084