Generation of high-energy electrons by a femtosecond terawatt laser propagating through a sharp downward density transition
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- Title
- Generation of high-energy electrons by a femtosecond terawatt laser propagating through a sharp downward density transition
- Authors
- Suk, H; Lee, HJ; Ko, IS
- Date Issued
- 2004-07
- Publisher
- OPTICAL SOC AMER
- Abstract
- We demonstrate by computer simulations the generation of high-energy electrons by using a femtosecond terawatt laser pulse propagating in a plasma with a sharp downward density transition. In the two-dimensional simulation, a 20-TW laser pulse with a pulse duration of 60 fs and a wavelength of 800 nm propagates through a plasma with a sharp density transition consisting of n(0)(I) = 5 x 10(18) cm(-3) and n(0)(II) = 0. 75n(0)(I). The simulation result demonstrates that a significant amount of electrons can be self-trapped and accelerated to an energy of 117 MeV over a distance of 0.62 mm by the ultrastrong nonlinear laser wake field. In addition, it has been found that the trapping dynamics is much different from the electron-beam-driven dynamics and that the energy spread of the trapped electrons can be reduced significantly by use of the density tapering method. (C) 2004 Optical Society of America.
- Keywords
- PLASMA-WAVES; ACCELERATION; PULSES; INJECTION
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/108140
- DOI
- 10.1364/JOSAB.21.001391
- ISSN
- 0740-3224
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS, vol. 21, no. 7, page. 1391 - 1396, 2004-07
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