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 (https://doi.org/10.1109/LO.2018.8435436)

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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.

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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:25 Sep 2022 02:36
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/66363
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