Self-modulated wakefield and forced laser wakefield acceleration of electrons

@article{Najmudin2003SelfmodulatedWA,
  title={Self-modulated wakefield and forced laser wakefield acceleration of electrons},
  author={Z. Najmudin and K. Krushelnick and E. Clark and S. Mangles and B. Walton and A. Dangor and S. Fritzler and V. Malka and E. Lefebvre and D. Gordon and F. Tsung and C. Joshi},
  journal={Physics of Plasmas},
  year={2003},
  volume={10},
  pages={2071-2077}
}
The interaction of intense laser pulses (power>30 TW) with underdense plasmas has been studied. In the regime where the pulse length is much longer than the plasma period (τl≫2πωp−1), the laser pulse is found to be self-modulated at the plasma frequency by the forward Raman scattering instability. Wavebreaking of the resulting plasma wave results in energetic electrons being accelerated to more than 100 MeV. Reducing the pulse length so that τl∼2πωp−1, but retaining the same power, also leads… Expand
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