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Optimized laser vacuum acceleration by static magnetic field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2015

H. Lin ,
C. P. Liu ,
C. Wang  and
B. F. Shen
H. Lin*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Information Technology Research Center of Space Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Shanghai, China
C. P. Liu
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Information Technology Research Center of Space Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Shanghai, China
C. Wang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Information Technology Research Center of Space Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Shanghai, China
B. F. Shen
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Information Technology Research Center of Space Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Shanghai, China
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: H. Lin, State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Information Technology Research Center of Space Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, P. O. Box 800-211, Shanghai 201800, China. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Laser vacuum acceleration can be optimized significantly by applying a static magnetic field which is along the direction of laser magnetic field. This setup can cause a charged particle to be of a periodic, oscillatory-rising velocity, and significantly high kinetic energy. Moreover, the contribution from the motion vertical to accelerating electric field is fully taken into account and is found to be essential to efficient acceleration.

Keywords

LaserVacuum accelerationStatic magnetic field
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , September 2015 , pp. 433 - 437
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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