Excitation and control of plasma wakefields by multiple laser pulses

We demonstrate experimentally the resonant excitation of plasma waves by trains of laser pulses. We also take an important first step to achieving an energy recovery plasma accelerator by showing that a plasma wave can be damped by an out-of-resonance trailing laser pulse. The measured laser wakefie...

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Main Authors: Cowley, J, Thornton, C, Arran, C, Shalloo, RJ, Corner, L, Cheung, G, Gregory, CD, Mangles, SPD, Matlis, NH, Symes, DR, Walczak, R, Hooker, SM
Format: Journal article
Published: American Physical Society 2017