Method of trapping accelerating electrons in plasma

Details Method of trapping accelerating electrons in plasma Method of trapping accelerating electrons in plasma

2006-05-23

2006-05-23

Santiago, Mariceli (Department: 2879)

Electric lamp and discharge devices

With positive or negative ion acceleration

C315S111810, C315S111610, C313S362100, C313S231010

Reexamination Certificate

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07049736

ABSTRACT:
Background plasma electrons in a laser wake field are trapped and accelerated using a sharp downward density transition. A short and intense laser pulse travels through low density plasma with a sharp downward density transition. The density transition scale length is much smaller than the wavelength of a laser wake wave. As the laser wake wave passes the density transition, its wavelength increases suddenly so that some background plasma electrons are self-injected into the acceleration phase of the wake field and trapped and accelerated by the strong laser wake field.

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Suk, H, et al, Plasma Electron Trapping and Acceleration in a Plasma Wake Field Using a Density Transition, Physical Review Letters, vol. 86, No. 6, Feb. 5, 2001.
Bulanov, S. et al, Particle Injection into the Wave Acceleration Phase Due to Nonlinear Wake Wave Breaking, Physical Review E, vol. 58, No. 5, Nov. 1998.

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