Silicon nanowire based high brightness, pulsed relativistic electron source

We demonstrate that silicon nanowire arrays efficiently emit relativistic electron pulses under irradiation by a high-intensity, femtosecond, and near-infrared laser (∼1018 W/cm2, 25 fs, 800 nm). The nanowire array yields fluxes and charge per bunch that are 40 times higher than those emitted by an...

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Main Authors: Deep Sarkar, Prashant Kumar Singh, G. Cristoforetti, Amitava Adak, Gourab Chatterjee, Moniruzzaman Shaikh, Amit D. Lad, P. Londrillo, Giuseppe D’Arrigo, J. Jha, M. Krishnamurthy, L. A. Gizzi, G. Ravindra Kumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2017-06-01
Series:APL Photonics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4984906