Subfemtosecond Wakefield Injector and Accelerator Based on an Undulating Plasma Bubble Controlled by a Laser Phase.

@article{Kim2021SubfemtosecondWI,
  title={Subfemtosecond Wakefield Injector and Accelerator Based on an Undulating Plasma Bubble Controlled by a Laser Phase.},
  author={Jihoon Kim and Tianhong Wang and Vladimir N. Khudik and Gennady Shvets},
  journal={Physical review letters},
  year={2021},
  volume={127 16},
  pages={
          164801
        }
}
We demonstrate that a long-propagating plasma bubble executing undulatory motion can be produced in the wake of two copropagating laser pulses: a near-single-cycle injector and a multicycle driver. When the undulation amplitude exceeds the analytically derived threshold, highly localized injections of plasma electrons into the bubble are followed by their long-distance acceleration. While the locations of the injection regions are controlled by the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of the injector… 
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