Few femtosecond, few kiloampere electron bunch produced by a laser-plasma accelerator

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 219-222

  Lundh, O ^a,d   Lim, J ^a   Rechatin, C ^a   Ammoura, L ^a   Ben Ismail A ^b   Davoine, X ^c   Gallot, G ^a   Goddet, J P ^a   Lefebvre, E ^c   Malka, V ^a   Faure, J ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE LEPRINCE RINGUET   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON BEAMS; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; PARTICLE BEAM BUNCHING; PLASMA ACCELERATORS; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVEMETERS;

COHERENT TRANSITION RADIATION; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; LASER-PLASMA ACCELERATOR; OPTICAL INJECTION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; SHORT-WAVELENGTH RADIATION SOURCES; SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT; TEMPORAL FEATURES;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 79952449921     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1872     Document Type: Article

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