First demonstration of a staged all-optical laser wakefield acceleration

D. Kaganovich; A. Ting; D. F. Gordon; R. F. Hubbard; T. G. Jones; A. Zigler; P. Sprangle

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First demonstration of a staged all-optical laser wakefield acceleration

D. Kaganovich, A. Ting, D. F. Gordon, R. F. Hubbard, T. G. Jones, A. Zigler, P. Sprangle

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A proof-of-principle experiment on staged all-optical laser wakefield acceleration was performed at the Naval Research Laboratory. Electrons with <1 MeV energy created by the interaction of a 2 TW laser beam with a nitrogen gas jet were injected and accelerated to more than 20 MeV in a plasma wakefield generated by a 10 TW laser beam in a helium gas jet. The energy gain occurred in a narrow time window of 3 ps between the injection and acceleration laser beams, and within a tight spatial alignment of ∼10 μm.

Original language	English
Article number	100702
Pages (from-to)	1-4
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physics of Plasmas
Volume	12
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2102727
State	Published - 2005
Externally published	Yes

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