Near-GeV acceleration of electrons by a nonlinear plasma wave driven by a self-guided laser pulse.

Kneip, S; Nagel, S R; Martins, S F; Mangles, S P D; Bellei, C; Chekhlov, O; Clarke, R J; Delerue, N; Divall, E J; Doucas, G; Ertel, K; Fiuza, F; Fonseca, R; Foster, P; Hawkes, S J; Hooker, C J; Krushelnick, K; Mori, W B; Palmer, C A J; Phuoc, K Ta; Rajeev, P P; Schreiber, J; Streeter, M J V; Urner, D; Vieira, J; Silva, L O; Najmudin, Z

Kneip, S; Nagel, S R; Martins, S F; Mangles, S P D; Bellei, C; Chekhlov, O; Clarke, R J; Delerue, N; Divall, E J; Doucas, G; Ertel, K; Fiuza, F; Fonseca, R; Foster, P; Hawkes, S J; Hooker, C J; Krushelnick, K; Mori, W B; Palmer, C A J; Phuoc, K Ta; Rajeev, P P; Schreiber, J; Streeter, M J V; Urner, D; Vieira, J; Silva, L O; Najmudin, Z.

Kneip S; The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom.

Phys Rev Lett ; 103(3): 035002, 2009 Jul 17.

Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19659287

ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT

The acceleration of electrons to approximately 0.8 GeV has been observed in a self-injecting laser wakefield accelerator driven at a plasma density of 5.5x10(18) cm(-3) by a 10 J, 55 fs, 800 nm laser pulse in the blowout regime. The laser pulse is found to be self-guided for 1 cm (>10zR), by measurement of a single filament containing >30% of the initial laser energy at this distance. Three-dimensional particle in cell simulations show that the intensity within the guided filament is amplified beyond its initial focused value to a normalized vector potential of a0>6, thus driving a highly nonlinear plasma wave.

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