DocumentCode
520884
Title
High quality electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator
Author
Wiggins, S.M. ; Shanks, R.P. ; Issac, R.C. ; Welsh, G.H. ; Anania, M.P. ; Brunetti, E. ; Vieux, G. ; Cipiccia, S. ; Ersfeld, B. ; Islam, M.R. ; Burgess, R. T L ; Manahan, G. ; Aniculaesei, C. ; Gillespie, W.A. ; MacLeod, A.M. ; Jaroszynski, D.A.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
fYear
2010
fDate
16-21 May 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
Very stable, high quality electron beams (current ∼ 10 kA, energy spread < 1%, emittance ∼ 1π mm mrad) have been generated in a laser-plasma accelerator driven by 25 TW femtosecond laser pulses.
Keywords
Acceleration; Charge coupled devices; Electron beams; Gas lasers; Laser beams; Particle accelerators; Plasma accelerators; Plasma density; Spectroscopy; X-ray lasers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-55752-890-2
Type
conf
Filename
5500487
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