Published January 17, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Particle acceleration by stimulated emission of radiation near a solid-state active medium

  • 1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000 (Israel)

Description

We report acceleration of electrons moving in free space near an active Nd:YAG slab. The power of a non-relativistic beam of electrons has increased by more than 30% when the medium was excited. It is demonstrated experimentally that the energy gained by the electrons is linearly proportional to the energy stored in the medium. Moreover, the energy gain traces closely the population inversion inferred by monitoring the spontaneous radiation.

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2010.11.060

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physleta.2010.11.060;
PII
S0375-9601(10)01530-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. A
Journal Volume
375
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 256-259
ISSN
0375-9601
CODEN
PYLAAG

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