Inverse free electron lasers and laser wakefield acceleration driven by CO2 lasers

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1840, 2006, Pages 611-622

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

^a STI OPTRONICS INC   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^h NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Co2 laser; Inverse free electron laser; Laser acceleration; Laser wakefield acceleration; Microbunch

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645275765     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2005.1726     Document Type: Article

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