Plasmonic Meta-Surface for Efficient Ultra-Short Pulse Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration
Accelerator Physics
2015-06-23 v1 Optics
Abstract
A laser-driven particle accelerator based on plasmonic nano-antennas is proposed and analyzed. The concept utilizes the enhancement and localization of the electric field by nano-antennas to maximize the acceleration gradient and to overcome potential metallic losses. The structure is optimized for accelerating relativistic particles using a femto-second laser source operating at 800nm, and is shown to support the bandwidth of ultra-short laser pulses (up to 16fsec) while providing a high acceleration gradient potentially reaching 11.6GV/m.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1409.6501,
title = {Plasmonic Meta-Surface for Efficient Ultra-Short Pulse Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration},
author = {Doron Bar-Lev and Jacob Scheuer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.6501},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
7 pages, 5 figures