• 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