Relativistic attosecond electron pulses from a free-space laser-acceleration scheme

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Varin, Charles ^a   Piché, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER BEAMS; LASER PULSES; RELATIVITY; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ELECTRON CLOUDS; ELECTRON PULSES; MAXWELL-LORENTZ EQUATIONS; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC (TM) LASER BEAMS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 33750247825     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.045602     Document Type: Article

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