Electron-yield enhancement in a laser-wakefield accelerator driven by asymmetric laser pulses

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 174802/1-174802/4

  Leemans, W P ^a   Catravas, P ^a   Esarey, E ^a   Geddes, C G R ^a   Toth, C ^a   Trines, R ^a,b   Schroeder, C B ^a   Shadwick, B A ^a   van Tilborg, J ^a   Faure, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; ELECTRONS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA WAVES;

ELECTRON-YIELD ENHANCEMENT; FULL-WIDTH-HALF-MAXIMUM; LASER-WAKEFIELD ACCELERATOR;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0037152767     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.174802     Document Type: Article

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