Temporal and spatial measurements of the electron density perturbation produced in the wake of an ultra-short laser pulse

J.C. Gauthier; J. R. Marquès; J. P. Geindre; F. Amiranoff; P. Audebert; G. Grillon; A. Antonetti

European Quantum Electronics Conference
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1996),
paper QWL5

Temporal and spatial measurements of the electron density perturbation produced in the wake of an ultra-short laser pulse

J.C. Gauthier, J. R. Marquès, J. P. Geindre, F. Amiranoff, P. Audebert, G. Grillon, and A. Antonetti

European Quantum Electronics Conference 1996

Hamburg Germany
8–13 September 1996
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Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics (QWL)

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J. C. Gauthier, J. R. Marquès, J. P. Geindre, F. Amiranoff, P. Audebert, G. Grillon, and A. Antonetti, "Temporal and spatial measurements of the electron density perturbation produced in the wake of an ultra-short laser pulse," in European Quantum Electronics Conference, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1996), paper QWL5.

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Abstract

Recently, there has been great interest in the production of large amplitude electron plasma waves (EPW) because of their potential application for particle acceleration or photon acceleration [1]. In the laser wake field (LWF) scheme, the EPW is excited by the ponderomotive force associated with the temporal profile of a short laser pulse. The EPW amplitude is maximum when the laser pulse duration is close to the inverse plasma pulsation. The LWF process is very attractive because the width of its resonance is much larger than in the laser beat-wave acceleration mechanism [1].

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