Controlled wake field acceleration via laser pulse shaping

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 393-399

  Bulanov, Sergei V ^a,c   Esirkepov, Timur J ^c   Naumova, Natalia M ^a   Pegoraro, Francesco ^b   Pogorelsky, Igor V ^d   Pukhov, Alexander M ^e  

^a PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^e BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; CHARGED PARTICLES; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTRONS; GAS LASERS; PLASMA ACCELERATORS; PLASMA WAVES;

LASER WAVE FIELD ELECTRON ACCELERATION; PARTICLE DEPHASING; PARTICLE IN CELL SIMULATIONS; REDUCED NET ACCELERATION; SELF MODULATION INSTABILITIES;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0030125237     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.510003     Document Type: Article

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