Electron self-injection and acceleration driven by a tightly focused intense laser beam in an underdense plasma
Electron self-injection and acceleration driven by a tightly focused intense laser beam in an underdense plasma
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DOI:
10.1063/1.1827625
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发表时间:
2005
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
H. Xu;Wei Yu;P. Lu;V. Senecha;F. He;B. Shen;L. Qian;Ruxin Li;Zhi‐zhan Xu
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作者:
H. Xu;Wei Yu;P. Lu;V. Senecha;F. He;B. Shen;L. Qian;Ruxin Li;Zhi‐zhan Xu
A scheme for electron self-injection in the laser wakefield acceleration is proposed. In this scheme, the transverse wave breaking of the wakefield and the tightly focused geometry of the laser beam play important roles. A large number of the background electrons are self-injected into the acceleration phase of the wakefield during the defocusing of the tightly focused laser beam as it propagates through an underdense plasma. Particle-in-cell simulations performed using a 2D3V code have shown generation of a collimated electron bunch with a total number of 1.4 x 109 and energies up to 8 MeV. (C) 2005 American Institute of Physics.