Collimated beam of MeV electrons accelerated by a terawatt laser

R. Wagner; S. Y. Chen; A. Maksimchuk; E. Dodd; J. K. Kim; D. Umstadter

Collimated beam of MeV electrons accelerated by a terawatt laser

R. Wagner, S. Y. Chen, A. Maksimchuk, E. Dodd, J. K. Kim, D. Umstadter

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Abstract

The field at the focus of a short-pulse, high-power laser is so high that electrons oscillate at nearly the speed of light, giving rise to several interesting, and previously unstudied, effects. It was recently demonstrated that a laser wake field can produce a collimated beam of MeV electrons and that the laser may have been guided by relativistic self-focusing and electron cavitation. The experiment is remarkably simple and presented in detail.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	184
Number of pages	1
Journal	Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS
State	Published - 1996
Externally published	Yes
Event	Proceedings of the 1996 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO'96 - Anaheim, CA, USA Duration: Jun 2 1996 → Jun 7 1996

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Collimated beam of MeV electrons accelerated by a terawatt laser

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