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Near-GeV acceleration of electrons by a nonlinear plasma wave driven by a self-guided laser pulse
Stefan Kneip (Kneip, S.); Sabrina R. Nagel (Nagel, S. R.); Samuel F. Martins (Martins, S. F.); Stuart P. D. Mangles (Mangles, S. P. D.); Claudio Bellei (Bellei, C.); Oleg V. Chekhlov (Chekhlov, O.); Robert J. Clarke (Clarke, R. J.); Nicolas Delerue (Delerue, N.); Edwin J. Divall (Divall, E. J.); George Doucas (Doucas, G.); Klaus G. Ertel (Ertel, K.); Frederico Fiúza (Fiuza, F.); Ricardo Fonseca (Fonseca, R. A.); Peta S. Foster (Foster, P. S.); Steve J. Hawkes (Hawkes, S. J.); Chris J. Hooker (Hooker, C. J.); Karl Krushelnick (Krushelnick, K.); Warren B. Mori (Mori, W. B.); Charlotte A. J. Palmer (Palmer, C. A. J.); Kim Ta Phuoc (Ta Phuoc, K.); Paramel P. Rajeev (Rajeev, P. P.); Jeorg Schreiber (Schreiber, J.); Matthew J. V. Streeter (Streeter, M. J. V.); David Urner (Urner, D.); Jorge Vieira (Vieira, J.); Luis O. Silva (Silva, L. O.); Zulficar Najmudin (Najmudin, Z.); et al.
Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Year (definitive publication)
2009
Language
English
Country
United States of America
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Abstract
The acceleration of electrons to similar or equal to 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 (> 10z(R)), 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 a(0)> 6, thus driving a highly nonlinear plasma wave.
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Fields of Science and Technology Classification
  • Physical Sciences - Natural Sciences
Publication Identifiers
2-s2.0-68749114156
cv-prod-id-851678
10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.035002
WOS:000268088300034
000268088300034
2-s2.0-68749114156
ci-pub-36841
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2009
American Physical Society
Web of Science©; Scopus;
0031-9007 (print)
1079-7114 (online)
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