First demonstration of a staged all-optical laser wakefield acceleration

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Kaganovich, D ^a,b   Ting, A ^a   Gordon, D F ^a   Hubbard, R F ^a   Jones, T G ^a   Zigler, A ^a,c   Sprangle, P ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LET Corporation   (United States)

^c ICARUS RESEARCH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM GAS JET; NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY; SPATIAL ALIGNMENT;

GAIN MEASUREMENT; HELIUM; JETS; LASER BEAMS; LASER OPTICS; NITROGEN;

WAKES;

EID: 27644581150     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2102727     Document Type: Article

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