Temporal evolution of longitudinal bunch profile in a laser wakefield accelerator

We present single-shot measurements of the longitudinal bunch profile from a laser-wakefield accelerator with sub-fs resolution, based on detection of coherent transition radiation in a broad spectral range. A previously developed phase retrieval algorithm enables reconstruction of the bunch profile...

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Main Authors: M. Heigoldt, A. Popp, K. Khrennikov, J. Wenz, S. W. Chou, S. Karsch, S. I. Bajlekov, S. M. Hooker, B. Schmidt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2015-12-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.18.121302