Demonstration of high-trapping efficiency and narrow energy spread in a laser-driven accelerator

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作者
Kimura, WD [1 ]
Babzien, M
Ben-Zvi, I
Campbell, LP
Cline, DB
Dilley, CE
Gallardo, JC
Gottschalk, SC
Kusche, KP
Pantell, RH
Pogorelsky, IV
Quimby, DC
Skaritka, J
Steinhauer, LC
Yakimenko, V
Zhou, F
机构
[1] STI Optron Inc, Bellevue, WA 98004 USA
[2] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[3] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
[4] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[5] Univ Washington, Redmond Plasma Phys Lab, Redmond, WA 98052 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.054801
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
Laser-driven electron accelerators (laser linacs) offer the potential for enabling much more economical and compact devices. However, the development of practical and efficient laser linacs requires accelerating a large ensemble of electrons together ("trapping") while keeping their energy spread small. This has never been realized before for any laser acceleration system. We present here the first demonstration of high-trapping efficiency and narrow energy spread via laser acceleration. Trapping efficiencies of up to 80% and energy spreads down to 0.36% (1sigma) were demonstrated.
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