Published November 4, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Synchrotron Radiation from a Laser Plasma Accelerator in the Bubble Regime

  • 1. Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109 (United States)
  • 2. Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2BZ (United Kingdom)
  • 3. Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquee, ENSTA, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, 91761 (France)

Description

A laser wakefield accelerator is shown to operate in the highly non-linear bubble regime, following the characteristic scaling of energy gain with density and leading to monoenergetic electron beams with up to 400 MeV and hundreds of pC charge. The bubble acts at the same time as a miniature undulator, causing the electrons to give off a beam of betatron x-rays with milliradian divergence, μm source size, 1-100 keV photon energy and 1022 ph/mm2/mrad2s/0.1% BW.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
1299
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 185-190
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
14. advanced accelerator concepts workshop
Dates
13-19 Jun 2010
Place
Annapolis, MD (United States)

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(c) 2010 American Institute of Physics