Powerful, pulsed, THz radiation from laser accelerated relativistic electron bunches

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5448, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 491-504

  Tóth, Cs ^a   Van Tilborg, J ^a,b   Geddes, C G R ^a,c   Fubiani, G ^a,d   Schroeder, C B ^a   Esarey, E ^a   Faure, J ^e   Dugan, G ^f   Leemans, W P ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^e LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

^f Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron acceleration; Laser plasma; THz emission; Transition radiation; Ultra short; Ultrahigh fields; Wakefield

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; IONIZATION OF GASES; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LIGHT EMISSION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ELECTRON ACCELERATION; THZ-EMISSION; TRANSITION RADIATION; ULTRAHIGH-FIELDS; WAKEFIELDS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 5044240251     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.548945     Document Type: Conference Paper

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