Femtosecond electron bunches from colliding laser pulses in plasmas

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Esarey, E [1 ]
Hubbard, RE [1 ]
Leemans, WP [1 ]
Ting, A [1 ]
Sprangle, P [1 ]
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[1] USN, Res Lab, Div Plasma Phys, Beam Phys Branch, Washington, DC 20375 USA
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An injector and accelerator is analyzed that uses three collinear laser pulses in a plasma: a pump pulse, which generates a large wakefield (greater than or equal to 20 GV/m), and two counterpropagating injection pulses. When the injection pulses collide, a slow phase velocity beat wave is generated that injects electrons into the fast wakefield for acceleration. Particle tracking simulations in I-D with injection pulse intensities near 10(17) W/cm(2) indicate the production of high energy electrons with bunch durations as short as 3 fs, energy spreads as small as 0.3%, and densities as high as 10(18) cm(-3).
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