Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Vacuum laser acceleration of super-ponderomotive electrons using relativistic transparency injection

  • P. K. Singh,
  • F.-Y. Li,
  • C.-K. Huang,
  • A. Moreau,
  • R. Hollinger,
  • A. Junghans,
  • A. Favalli,
  • C. Calvi,
  • S. Wang,
  • Y. Wang,
  • H. Song,
  • J. J. Rocca,
  • R. E. Reinovsky,
  • S. Palaniyappan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27691-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Compact electron accelerators based on laser-plasma acceleration scheme may be useful for future light sources, radiation therapy etc. Here the authors demonstrate electron acceleration in laser plasma interaction via vacuum laser acceleration and relativistic transparency injection.