Towards realizing optical injection of electrons in resonantly excited plasma wakefields

N. Saleh; P. Zhang; S. Chen; C. Widjaja; W. Theobald; V. Yanovsky; D. Umstadter

Towards realizing optical injection of electrons in resonantly excited plasma wakefields

N. Saleh, P. Zhang, S. Chen, C. Widjaja, W. Theobald, V. Yanovsky, D. Umstadter

Physics and Astronomy

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Abstract

The concept of optical injection of plasma background electrons into resonantly driven laser wakefields has been extensively studied theoretically. It was shown that when a strong 1-D wakefield is ponderomotively excited by an ultra-short laser pulse comparable in duration to the plasma wave and a similar transverse laser pulse, but otherwise tightly focused onto the wakefield, is introduced, a relativistic electron bunch with a very narrow (a few %) energy distribution, and very short duration (10's fs) is produced. This concept is actively being investigated experimentally using the University of Michigan's Hercules laser system. We report our progress toward experimentally realizing this concept.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	1921-1923
Number of pages	3
State	Published - 2003
Event	PAC 2003 - Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference - Portland, OR, United States Duration: May 12 2003 → May 16 2003

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Other	PAC 2003 - Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference
Country/Territory	United States
City	Portland, OR
Period	5/12/03 → 5/16/03

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