Laser based synchrotron radiation

Authors

Kim Ta Phuoc, Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, ENSTA, CNRS UMR7639, Ecole Polytechnique, Chemin de la Hunière, F-91761 Palaiseau, France
Frederic Burgy, Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, ENSTA, CNRS UMR7639, Ecole Polytechnique, Chemin de la Hunière, F-91761 Palaiseau, France
Jean-Philippe Rousseau, Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, ENSTA, CNRS UMR7639, Ecole Polytechnique, Chemin de la Hunière, F-91761 Palaiseau, France
Victor Malka, Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, ENSTA, CNRS UMR7639, Ecole Polytechnique, Chemin de la Hunière, F-91761 Palaiseau, FranceFollow
Antoine Rousse, Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, ENSTA, CNRS UMR7639, Ecole Polytechnique, Chemin de la Hunière, F-91761 Palaiseau, France
Rahul Shah, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Donald P. Umstadter, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Alexander Puhkov, Insitut fur Theoretische Physik I, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat, Duesseldorf, 40225 Dusseldorf, Germany
Sergei Kiselev, Insitut fur Theoretische Physik I, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat, Duesseldorf, 40225 Dusseldorf, Germany

Date of this Version

2-1-2005

Comments

Published by American Institute of Physics. Phys. Plasmas 12, 023101 (2005). Copyright 2005. Permission to use. http://pop.aip.org/.

Abstract

Beams of x rays in the kiloelectronvolt energy range have been produced from laser-matter interaction. Here, energetic electrons are accelerated by a laser wakefield, and experience betatron oscillations in an ion channel formed in the wake of the intense femtosecond laser pulse. Experiments using a 50 TW laser (30 fs duration) are described, as well as comparisons with numerical simulations. These results pave the way of a new generation of radiation in the x-ray spectral range, with a high collimation and an ultrafast pulse duration, produced by the use of compact laser system.