Beat wave injection of electrons into plasma waves using two interfering laser pulses

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

Volumn 70, Issue 1 2, 2004, Pages

  Fubiani, G ^a,b   Esarey, E ^a   Schroeder, C B ^a   Leemans, W P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LASER PULSES; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PLASMA ACCELERATORS; PLASMA DENSITY; PUMPING (LASER); WAKES;

BEAT WAVE INJECTION; LASER INTENSITY; LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATORS (LWFA); PHASE VELOCITIES;

PLASMA WAVES;

EID: 42749103778     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.016402     Document Type: Article

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