Sub-femtosecond electron sheets from a Laguerre-Gaussian laser interaction with micro-droplets

Hu, Li-Xiang and Yu, Tong-Pu and McKenna, Paul and Shao, Fu-Qiu; (2018) Sub-femtosecond electron sheets from a Laguerre-Gaussian laser interaction with micro-droplets. In: 2018 International Conference Laser Optics (ICLO). IEEE, SUN, p. 251. ISBN 9781538636114

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    Abstract

    An all-optical scheme for generation and acceleration of relativistic electron sheets is proposed. When an intense Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) laser pulse sweeps microdroplets, annular sub-femtosecond electron bunches with one laser wavelength spacing are dragged out by the radial component of laser electric fields, and then efficiently accelerated by the longitudinal electric fields. Once fleeing from the droplet, these bunches are squeezed into dense sheets and trapped by the potential well of the transverse ponderomotive force, which can stably propagate for several hundred femtoseconds and are potential for applications in short x/γ-ray radiation sources.

    ORCID iDs

    Hu, Li-Xiang, Yu, Tong-Pu, McKenna, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8061-7091 and Shao, Fu-Qiu;
    • Item type:Book Section
      ID code:66363
      Dates:
      Date
      Event
      16 August 2018
      Published
      1 August 2018
      Accepted
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      Keywords:laser modes, plasmas, laser theory, sub-femtosecon electron sheets, novel radiation source, high power laser, Optics. Light, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
      Subjects:Science > Physics > Optics. Light
      Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
      Depositing user: Pure Administrator
      Date deposited:14 Dec 2018 01:12
      Last modified:26 Mar 2021 02:12
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      URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/66363
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