Electron acceleration in sub-relativistic wakefields driven by few-cycle laser pulses

Using particle-in-cell simulations, we study the interaction of few-mJ–few-cycle laser pulses with an underdense plasma at resonant density. In this previously unexplored regime, it is found that group velocity dispersion is a key ingredient of the interaction. The concomitant effects of dispersion...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: B Beaurepaire, A Lifschitz, J Faure
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2014-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/16/2/023023