Collimated quasi-monochromatic beams of accelerated electrons in the interaction of a weak-contrast intense femtosecond laser pulse with a metal foil

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Collimated quasi-monochromatic beams of accelerated electrons in the interaction of a weak-contrast intense femtosecond laser pulse with a metal foil. / Malkov, Yu A.; Stepanov, A. N.; Yashunin, D. A.; Pugachev, L. P.; Levashov, P. R.; Andreev, N. E.; Platonov, K. Yu; Andreev, A. A.

In: High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 2, 20.06.2013, p. 80-87.

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Malkov, Yu A. ; Stepanov, A. N. ; Yashunin, D. A. ; Pugachev, L. P. ; Levashov, P. R. ; Andreev, N. E. ; Platonov, K. Yu ; Andreev, A. A. / Collimated quasi-monochromatic beams of accelerated electrons in the interaction of a weak-contrast intense femtosecond laser pulse with a metal foil. In: High Power Laser Science and Engineering. 2013 ; Vol. 1, No. 2. pp. 80-87.

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title = "Collimated quasi-monochromatic beams of accelerated electrons in the interaction of a weak-contrast intense femtosecond laser pulse with a metal foil",

abstract = "We demonstrated experimentally the formation of monoenergetic beams of accelerated electrons by focusing femtosecond laser radiation with an intensity of 2 × 1017 W=cm2 onto the edge of an aluminum foil. The electrons had energy distributions peaking in the 0.2-0.8 MeV range with energy spread less than 20%. The acceleration mechanism related to the generation of a plasma wave as a result of self-modulation instability of a laser pulse in a dense plasma formed by a prepulse (arriving 12 ns before the main pulse) is considered. One-dimensional and two-dimensional Particle in Cell (PIC) simulations of the laser-plasma interaction showed that effective excitation of a plasma wave as well as trapping and acceleration of an electron beam with an energy on the order of 1 MeV may occur in the presence of sharp gradients in plasma density and in the temporal shape of the pulse.",

keywords = "acceleration of electrons, femtosecond laser radiation, plasma wave, self-modulation instability",

author = "Malkov, {Yu A.} and Stepanov, {A. N.} and Yashunin, {D. A.} and Pugachev, {L. P.} and Levashov, {P. R.} and Andreev, {N. E.} and Platonov, {K. Yu} and Andreev, {A. A.}",

note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2013{\^A} The online version of this article is published within an Open Access environment subject to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution licence <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>.",

year = "2013",

month = jun,

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doi = "10.1017/hpl.2013.13",

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journal = "High Power Laser Science and Engineering",

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AU - Stepanov, A. N.

AU - Yashunin, D. A.

AU - Pugachev, L. P.

AU - Levashov, P. R.

AU - Andreev, N. E.

AU - Platonov, K. Yu

AU - Andreev, A. A.

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N2 - We demonstrated experimentally the formation of monoenergetic beams of accelerated electrons by focusing femtosecond laser radiation with an intensity of 2 × 1017 W=cm2 onto the edge of an aluminum foil. The electrons had energy distributions peaking in the 0.2-0.8 MeV range with energy spread less than 20%. The acceleration mechanism related to the generation of a plasma wave as a result of self-modulation instability of a laser pulse in a dense plasma formed by a prepulse (arriving 12 ns before the main pulse) is considered. One-dimensional and two-dimensional Particle in Cell (PIC) simulations of the laser-plasma interaction showed that effective excitation of a plasma wave as well as trapping and acceleration of an electron beam with an energy on the order of 1 MeV may occur in the presence of sharp gradients in plasma density and in the temporal shape of the pulse.

AB - We demonstrated experimentally the formation of monoenergetic beams of accelerated electrons by focusing femtosecond laser radiation with an intensity of 2 × 1017 W=cm2 onto the edge of an aluminum foil. The electrons had energy distributions peaking in the 0.2-0.8 MeV range with energy spread less than 20%. The acceleration mechanism related to the generation of a plasma wave as a result of self-modulation instability of a laser pulse in a dense plasma formed by a prepulse (arriving 12 ns before the main pulse) is considered. One-dimensional and two-dimensional Particle in Cell (PIC) simulations of the laser-plasma interaction showed that effective excitation of a plasma wave as well as trapping and acceleration of an electron beam with an energy on the order of 1 MeV may occur in the presence of sharp gradients in plasma density and in the temporal shape of the pulse.

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