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Electron and proton beams produced by ultra short laser pulses in the relativistic regime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2004

V. MALKA  and
S. FRITZLER
V. MALKA
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée–ENSTA, CNRS UMR, Ecole Polytechnique, Chemin de la Humiére, Palaiseau, France
S. FRITZLER
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée–ENSTA, CNRS UMR, Ecole Polytechnique, Chemin de la Humiére, Palaiseau, France
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Abstract

It is known that relativistic laser plasma interactions can already today induce accelerating fields beyond some TV/m, which are indeed capable to efficiently accelerate plasma background electrons as well as protons. An introduction to the current state of the art will be given and possible applications of these optically induced charged particle sources will be discussed.

Keywords

Electron beamsLaser plasma interactionPlasma wavesProton beamsRelativistic regime
Type
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LASER AND PLASMA ACCELERATORS
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , October 2004 , pp. 399 - 405
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

This paper was delivered at the International Workshop on Laser and Plasma Accelerators, held at Portovenere, Italy, September 29 to October 3, 2003.

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