• DocumentCode
    499842
  • Title

    Vacuum acceleration in a regime beyond Brunel absorption

  • Author

    Marjoribanks, R.S. ; Geindre, J.-P. ; Audebert, P.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    2-4 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We describe a new regime of vacuum acceleration in laser-plasmas driven by ultrafast pulses of relativistic intensity, in which space-charge separation leads to strongly enhanced laser absorption and 20 MeV electrons accelerated outward.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; light absorption; plasma production by laser; Brunel absorption; electron volt energy 20 MeV; laser absorption; laser-plasmas; relativistic intensity; space-charge separation; ultrafast pulses; vacuum acceleration; Absorption; Acceleration; Electrons; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Optical surface waves; Plasma accelerators; Plasma density; Plasma simulation; Ultrafast optics; (190.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics; (320.2250) Femtosecond phenomena;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-869-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-869-8
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5225204