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A high-repetition-rate laser-wakefield accelerator for studies of electron acceleration

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Article number877905
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>05/2013
<mark>Journal</mark>Proceedings of SPIE
Volume8779
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We report on an experimental demonstration of laser wake field electron acceleration using few-milijoule laser pulses tightly focused on a 100 μm scale gas target. Using a comparatively low energy pulse has the benefit of a more compact system with a high repetition rate (typically kHz), which can prove useful for both practical applications and better statistical studies of laser plasma interactions. A proof-of-principle experiment was conducted to demonstrate the applicability of such electron sources from laser plasma wake field accelerator for ultrafast electron diffraction.