Laser gate: Multi-MeV electron acceleration and zeptosecond e-bunching

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 6194-6202

  Kaplan, A E ^a   Pokrovsky, A L ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b KLA TENCOR CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INELASTIC SCATTERING; LASER BEAMS;

ELECTRON BUNCH; FIELD GRADIENT; INTENSE LASER; LASER FIELDS; LASER GATES; MEV-ELECTRONS; TEMPORAL FOCUSING; ZEPTOSECOND;

ELECTRONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 65549162566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.006194     Document Type: Article

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