Pseudoresonant laser wakefield acceleration driven by 10.6-μm laser light

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 33, Issue 1 I, 2005, Pages 3-7

  Kimura, W D ^a   Andreev, N E ^b   Babzien, M ^c   Ben Zvi, I ^c   Cline, D B ^d   Dilley, C E ^a   Gottschalk, S C ^a   Hooker, S M ^e   Kusche, K P ^c   Kuznetsov, S V ^b   Pavlishin, I V ^c   Pogorelsky, I V ^c   Pogosova, A A ^b   Steinhauer, L C ^f   Ting, A ^g   Yakimenko, V ^c   Zigler, A ^h   Zhou, F ^d  

^a STI OPTRONICS INC   (United States)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^h HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Capillary discharge; Carbon dioxide lasers; Electron accelerators; Laser accelerators; Laser wakefield acceleration

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS; ELECTRON TRAPS; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT MODULATION; LINEAR ACCELERATORS;

CAPILLARY DISCHARGE; ELECTRON LASER ACCELERATION; LASER ACCELERATORS; LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATION (LWFA);

PLASMA ACCELERATORS;

EID: 20044395255     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2004.841173     Document Type: Article

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