Generation of stable ultra-relativistic attosecond electron bunches via the laser wakefield acceleration mechanism

Luttikhof, M.J.H. and Khachatryan, A.G. and Goor van, F.A. and Boller, K.-J. (2009) Generation of stable ultra-relativistic attosecond electron bunches via the laser wakefield acceleration mechanism. arXiv.org .

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Abstract:	In recent experiments ultra-relativistic femtosecond electron bunches were generated by a Laser Wakefield Accelerator (LWFA) in different regimes. Here we predict that even attosecond bunches can be generated by an LWFA due to the fast betatron phase mixing within a femtosecond electron bunch. The attosecond bunches are stable outside the LWFA and can propagate in vacuum many tens of centimeter without significant change in their duration. Our calculations show that evidence for the formation of attosecond bunches can be found in the spectrum of coherent betatron radiation from LWFA's.
Item Type:	Article
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Laser Physics and Nonlinear Optics (LPNO)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/72879
Official URL:	http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.3372v1
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