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Concept of generation of extremely compressed high-energy electron bunches in several interfering intense laser pulses with tilted amplitude fronts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2012

V.V. Korobkin ,
M.Yu. Romanovskiy ,
V.A. Trofimov  and
O.B. Shiryaev
V.V. Korobkin
Affiliation:
A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
M.Yu. Romanovskiy
Affiliation:
A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
V.A. Trofimov
Affiliation:
A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
O.B. Shiryaev*
Affiliation:
A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Oleg B. Shiryaev, A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science, P.O. Box 119991, Vavilov Street 38, Moscow, Russia. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

A new concept of generating tight bunches of electrons accelerated to high energies is proposed. The electrons are born via ionization of a low-density neutral gas by laser radiation, and the concept is based on the electrons acceleration in traps arising within the pattern of interference of several relativistically intense laser pulses with amplitude fronts tilted relative to their phase fronts. The traps move with the speed of light and (1) collect electrons; (2) compress them to extremely high density in all dimensions, forming electron bunches; and (3) accelerate the resulting bunches to energies of at least several GeV per electron. The simulations of bunch formation employ the Newton equation with the corresponding Lorentz force.

Keywords

electron buncheslasersrelativistic intensities
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 23 - 28
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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