Two-pulse ionization injection into quasilinear laser wakefields.

We describe a scheme for controlling electron injection into the quasilinear wakefield driven by a guided drive pulse via ionization of a dopant species by a collinear injection laser pulse with a short Rayleigh range. The scheme is analyzed by particle-in-cell simulations which show controlled inje...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bourgeois, N, Cowley, J, Hooker, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2013