Electron self-injection and acceleration driven by a tightly focused intense laser beam in an underdense plasma

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-6

  Xu, Han ^a,b   Yu, Wei ^a   Lu, Peixiang ^a   Senecha, V K ^a,c   He, Feng ^a   Shen, Baifei ^a   Qian, Liejia ^d   Li, Ruxin ^a   Xu, Zhizhan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c RAJA RAMANNA CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; LASER BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMAS; POLARIZATION; VELOCITY CONTROL;

ELECTRON SELF-INJECTION; LASER WEAKFIELD ACCELERATION; PLASMA CAVITIES; TRANSVERSE WAVES;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 20444500522     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1827625     Document Type: Article

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