Surface plasmon enhanced electron acceleration with few-cycle laser pulses

Laser and Particle Beams

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 291-296

  Dombi, P ^a   Rcz, P ^a   Bdi, B ^a  

^a WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Electron acceleration; Few cycle pulses; Surface plasmons; Ultrafast phenomena

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ACCELERATION; EMITTED ELECTRON; FEW-CYCLE LASER PULSE; FEW-CYCLE PULSES; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; MONOENERGETIC; NANO SCALE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARAMETER REGIMES; PARTICLE ACCELERATION; SIMPLE MODEL; SURFACE ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; SURFACE PLASMONS; ULTRAFAST APPLICATIONS;

ACCELERATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRONS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PARTICLE ACCELERATOR ACCESSORIES; PLASMA ACCELERATORS; PLASMONS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 68349128470     PISSN: 02630346     EISSN: 1469803X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263034609000391     Document Type: Article

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