Resonant excitation of plasma waves in a plasma channel

We demonstrate resonant excitation of a plasma wave by a train of short laser pulses guided in a preformed plasma channel, for parameters relevant to a plasma-modulated plasma accelerator (P-MoPA). We show experimentally that a train of N≈10 short pulses, of total energy ∼1J, can be guided through 1...

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Main Authors: Ross, AJ, Chappell, J, van de Wetering, JJ, Cowley, J, Archer, E, Bourgeois, N, Corner, L, Emerson, DR, Feder, L, Gu, XJ, Jakobsson, O, Jones, H, Picksley, A, Reid, L, Wang, W, Walczak, R, Hooker, SM
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2024