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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 234801 (2007) [4 pages]

Stochastic Extraction of Periodic Attosecond Bunches from Relativistic Electron Beams

I. Y. Dodin and N. J. Fisch
Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
Received 23 February 2007; published 5 June 2007

Intense laser waves can form a time-dependent gate, which transmits or reflects particles depending on their initial phases. When faced by a relativistic electron beam, such a barrier slices it by randomly scattering all but some particles, which nearly conserve their velocity. Subfemtosecond or attosecond periodic electron bunches are then formed downstream and can be used, for example, to generate coherent x rays via Thomson backscattering of the laser light.

©2007 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.234801
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.234801
PACS: 41.85.Ar; 41.75.Ht; 52.35.Mw
  • 41.85.Ar
    Beam extraction, beam injection
  • 41.75.Ht
    Relativistic electron and positron beams
  • 52.35.Mw
    Nonlinear phenomena: plasma waves, wave propagation and other interactions including parametric effects, mode coupling, ponderomotive effects, etc
  • YEAR: 2007

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