Direct acceleration of an electron in infinite vacuum by a pulsed radially-polarized laser beam.

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 25035-25051

  Wong, Liang Jie ^a   Kärtner, Franz X ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; LASER BEAMS; VACUUM;

DIRECT ACCELERATION; ENERGY GAIN; FREE ELECTRON; LOW POWER; NET ENERGY; PARAMETER SPACES; PETAWATT; POLARIZED LASER BEAMS; POWER LASERS; POWER-SCALING; THEORETICAL LIMITS;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 78649699279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.025035     Document Type: Article

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