Femtosecond 240-keV Electron Pulses from Direct Laser Acceleration in a Low-Density Gas
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We propose a simple laser-driven electron acceleration scheme based on tightly focused radially polarized laser pulses for the production of femtosecond electron bunches with energies in the few-hundreds-of-keV range. In this method, the electrons are accelerated forward in the focal volume by the longitudinal electric field component of the laser pulse. Three-dimensional test-particle and particle-in-cell simulations reveal the feasibility of generating well-collimated electron bunches with an energy spread of 5% and a temporal duration of the order of 1 fs. These results offer a route towards unprecedented time resolution in ultrafast electron diffraction experiments.
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High-energy MIR lasers are ideal for direct electron acceleration to generate sub-cycle electron bunches and incoherent sub-100 fs hard x-ray pulses for ultrafast diffraction imaging.
“Furthermore, high-energy MIR lasers are also ideal for direct electron acceleration to generate sub-cycle electron bunches [162] and incoherent sub-100 fs hard x-ray pulses [163] for ultrafast diffraction imaging.”
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- Authors
- Marceau, V., Varin, C., Brabec, T., & Piché, M.
- Affiliations
- Université Laval (CA)
- University of Ottawa (CA)
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2013-11-27
- Volume
- 111
- Issue
- 22
- Pages
- 224801-224801
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W1998652852
- Cited by
- 65
- References
- 39
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- FWCI
- 1.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- Physical Review Letters (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/G054940/1)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers
- Keywords
- laser-driven electron acceleration, direct laser acceleration, femtosecond electron pulses, radially polarized laser pulses, low-density gas, longitudinal electric field, energy spread, ultrafast electron diffraction, test particle simulation, particle-in-cell simulation
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