Effect of driving pulse properties on the performance of sub-terawatt laser wakefield acceleration

By introducing a sub-terawatt (TW) laser pulse into a high-density gas target, the self-focusing effect and the self-modulation instability can greatly enhance the laser peak power to a level capable of driving the laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) of electrons. A particle-in-cell model has been d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: C.-Y. Hsieh, M.-W. Lin, S.-H. Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2018-10-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5049805