Diagnosis and application of laser wakefield accelerators

This thesis is concerned with experimental diagnostic methods of the laser-plasma interaction in laser wakefield accelerators, and how high energy photon beams from such accelerators may be exploited in a potential application. Raman scattered light from the 20 TW Astra laser pulse was found to have...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cole, Jason Mark
Other Authors: Mangles, Stuart ; Najmudin, Zulfikar
Published: Imperial College London 2015
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.695533