Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kneip, S
• Nagel, S R
• Martins, S F
• Mangles, S P D
• Bellei, C
• Chekhlov, O
• Clarke, R J
• Delerue, N
• Divall, E J
• Doucas, G
• Ertel, K
• Fiuza, F
• Fonseca, R
• Foster, P
• Hawkes, S J
• Hooker, C J
• Krushelnick, K
• Mori, W B
• Palmer, C A J
• Phuoc, K Ta
• Rajeev, P P
• Schreiber, J
• Streeter, M J V
• Urner, D
• Vieira, J
• Silva, L O
• Najmudin, Z

Titel

Near-GeV acceleration of electrons by a nonlinear plasma wave driven by a self-guided laser pulse

Ist Teil von

• Physical review letters, 2009-07, Vol.103 (3), p.035002-035002, Article 035002

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Physical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

American Physical Society

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The acceleration of electrons to approximately 0.8 GeV has been observed in a self-injecting laser wakefield accelerator driven at a plasma density of 5.5x10(18) cm(-3) by a 10 J, 55 fs, 800 nm laser pulse in the blowout regime. The laser pulse is found to be self-guided for 1 cm (>10zR), by measurement of a single filament containing >30% of the initial laser energy at this distance. Three-dimensional particle in cell simulations show that the intensity within the guided filament is amplified beyond its initial focused value to a normalized vector potential of a0>6, thus driving a highly nonlinear plasma wave.