Generating Ultrarelativistic Attosecond Electron Bunches with Laser Wakefield Accelerators

Luttikhof, M.J.H. and Khachatryan, A.G. and Goor van, F.A. and Boller, K.-J. (2010) Generating Ultrarelativistic Attosecond Electron Bunches with Laser Wakefield Accelerators. Physical Review Letters, 105 (12). p. 124801. ISSN 0031-9007

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Abstract:	Femtosecond electron bunches with ultrarelativistic energies were recently generated by laser wakefield accelerators. Here we predict that laser wakefield acceleration can generate even attosecond bunches, due to a strong chirp of the betatron frequency. We show how the bunch duration scales with the acceleration parameters and that, after acceleration, the bunches can propagate over many tens of centimeters without a significant increase in duration.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2010 The American Physical Society
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Laser Physics and Nonlinear Optics (LPNO)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/73051
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.124801
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