Mechanisms for generating high energy electron beams by intense laser radiation

A. L. Galkin; O. B. Shiryaev; M. Yu. Romanovsky; V. V. Korobkin

doi:10.1117/12.679711

22 May 2006 Mechanisms for generating high energy electron beams by intense laser radiation

A. L. Galkin, O. B. Shiryaev, M. Yu. Romanovsky, V. V. Korobkin

Proceedings Volume 6256, ICONO 2005: Ultrafast Phenomena and Physics of Superintense Laser Fields; Quantum and Atom Optics; Engineering of Quantum Information; 625604 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.679711
Event: ICONO 2005, 2005, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

Abstract

The possibility of electron acceleration during the laser radiation relativistic and charge-displacement self-channeling is studied theoretically. A new acceleration mechanism related to the formation of an ion cloud traveling in a matter with the laser pulse (due to the effect of the ponderomotive force) is considered. The quasistationary electric and magnetic fields generated by the moving ion cloud may accelerate electrons to energies of tens of MeV and result in the formation of an electron beam going forward coaxially with the laser pulse. The angular distribution of accelerated electron calculated matches the experimental results found in the available publications.

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A. L. Galkin, O. B. Shiryaev, M. Yu. Romanovsky, and V. V. Korobkin "Mechanisms for generating high energy electron beams by intense laser radiation", Proc. SPIE 6256, ICONO 2005: Ultrafast Phenomena and Physics of Superintense Laser Fields; Quantum and Atom Optics; Engineering of Quantum Information, 625604 (22 May 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.679711

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