Optical mixing of laser light in a plasma and electron acceleration by relativistic electron plasma waves
- 1 December 1994
- journal article
- letter
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 76 (11) , 7645-7647
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.357937
Abstract
Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the principle of electron acceleration by relativistic electron plasma waves driven by the optical mixing of laser light in a plasma. Electrons injected at 12.5 MeV have been accelerated to 29.0 MeV over a plasma length of approximately 1 cm. This corresponds to an effective accelerating electric field gradient of approximately 1.7 GeV/m.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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