Plasma-wave resonator for particle-beam acceleration

1 January 1992

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A

Vol. 45 (2) , 1149-1156
https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.45.1149

Abstract

It is shown that a large-amplitude plasma wave is resonantly excited by the round-trip propagation of a short laser pulse in a plasma. The scheme results in a resonator of plasma waves that is useful for accelerating a charged particle beam. This method can be used in order to avoid wave saturation due to detuning resulting from large-amplitude nonlinear oscillation.

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