Self-guided wakefield experiments driven by petawatt class ultra-short laser pulses
Plasma Physics
2009-11-13 v1 Accelerator Physics
Abstract
We investigate the extension of self-injecting laser wakefield experiments to the regime that will be accessible with the next generation of petawatt class ultra-short pulse laser systems. Using linear scalings, current experimental trends and numerical simulations we determine the optimal laser and target parameters, i.e. focusing geometry, plasma density and target length, that are required to increase the electron beam energy (to > 1 GeV) without the use of external guiding structures.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0712.0720,
title = {Self-guided wakefield experiments driven by petawatt class ultra-short laser pulses},
author = {S. P. D. Mangles and A. G. R. Thomas and C. Bellei and A. E. Dangor and C. Kamperidis and S. Kneip and S. R. Nagel and L. Willingale and Z. Najmudin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.0720},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 pages, 8 figures