Direct longitudinal laser acceleration of electrons in free space

S Carbajo, EA Nanni, LJ Wong, G Moriena… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2016 - APS
… strong longitudinal energy transfer. Here we present the first observation of direct longitudinal
laser acceleration of nonrelativistic electrons that undergo highly directional multi-GeV=m …

Direct laser acceleration of electrons in free-space

S Carbajo, EA Nanni, LJ Wong, RJ Miller… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2015 - arxiv.org
… to achieve strong longitudinal energy transfer directly from laser to particle. Here we present
the first observation of direct longitudinal laser acceleration of nonrelativistic electrons that …

Laser-induced linear-field particle acceleration in free space

LJ Wong, KH Hong, S Carbajo, A Fallahi, P Piot… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
acceleration of a multi-electron bunch in free space, using the longitudinal field of an ultrafast
laser … This directly implies that any acceleration process in free space – regardless of pulse …

Novel aspects of direct laser acceleration of relativistic electrons

AV Arefiev, APL Robinson, VN Khudik - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2015 - cambridge.org
… We have shown that pre-acceleration of the electron or acceleration by a longitudinal electric
field can be extremely beneficial for achieving the resonance. This is because a reduction …

Laser-Induced Linear Electron Acceleration in Free Space

LJ Wong, KH Hong, S Carbajo, A Fallahi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
… (2013) Femtosecond 240-keV electron pulses from direct laser acceleration in a low-density …
insubstantial net particle acceleration in free space (assuming the purely-longitudinal on-…

Direct acceleration of an electron in infinite vacuum by a pulsed radially-polarized laser beam

LJ Wong, FX Kärtner - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
… investigation of laser-driven electron acceleration in vacuum, … acceleration) [9–20], or the
force exerted by the longitudinal … where μ 0 is the permeability of free space. By choosing …

Direct-field electron acceleration with ultrafast radially polarized laser beams: scaling laws and optimization

PL Fortin, M Piché, C Varin - … of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
longitudinal acceleration threshold in an RPLB and the maximum electron energy thus
available … from rest to GeV energies by ultrashort transverse magnetic laser pulses in free space

[HTML][HTML] Direct laser acceleration of electrons in the plasma bubble by tightly focused laser pulses

T Wang, V Khudik, A Arefiev, G Shvets - Physics of Plasmas, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
… that reveals the importance of the longitudinal laser electric field in the course of the resonant
acceleration of relativistic electrons by a tightly confined laser beam. It is shown that this …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond the ponderomotive limit: Direct laser acceleration of relativistic electrons in sub-critical plasmas

AV Arefiev, VN Khudik, APL Robinson, G Shvets… - Physics of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
longitudinal electric field on subsequent electron energy gain during acceleration by the
laser … the effect of the longitudinal electric field, we begin by considering electron motion in a …

Role of direct laser acceleration in energy gained by electrons in a laser wakefield accelerator with ionization injection

JL Shaw, FS Tsung, N Vafaei-Najafabadi… - Plasma physics and …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
… of the electron, and epsilon 0 is the permittivity of free space. … laser beam parameters where
considerable longitudinal and … of the tracked electrons versus the longitudinal energy gain …