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Ultrashort laser pulses and ultrashort electron bunches generated in relativistic laser-plasma interaction
Abstract : An experimental study of the interaction of ultrashort laser pulses with underdense plasmas in the relativistic regime is presented. A parameter regime of particular interest was found: the so-called bubble regime. In this regime, the laser pulse is focused to relativistic intensities and its pulse duration is comparable to or shorter than the plasma period. A wealth of physical phenomena occurs for such physical parameters. These phenomena have multiple signatures which have been investigated experimentally: (i) the generation of a high quality electron beam (high energy, very collimated, quasimonoenergetic energy distribution); (ii) the laser pulse temporal shortening in nonlinear plasma waves. In addition, experimental results suggest that the electron beam produced in this way has temporal structures shorter than 50 fs.
https://hal-polytechnique.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00502352
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Submitted on : Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 6:26:41 PM
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Contributor : Thuy Le <>
Submitted on : Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 6:26:41 PM
Last modification on : Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 5:38:03 PM