First Observation of Acceleration of Electrons by a Laser in a Vacuum - Journal of Modern Physics

JMP > Vol.4 No.1, January 2013

First Observation of Acceleration of Electrons by a Laser in a Vacuum ()

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DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2013.41001 5,202 Downloads 9,666 Views Citations

Author(s)

David Cline, Lei Shao, Xiaoping Ding, Yukun Ho, Qing Kong, Pingxiao Wang

Affiliation(s)

Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA.

ABSTRACT

Using the BNL Accelerator Test Facility we have shown that a tightly focused laser on a vacuum can accelerate an electron beam in free space. The electron beam had energy of 20 MeV and the CO₂ laser had energy of about 3 Joule. In the readout of the experiment we detect a clear effect for the laser beam off and on. The size of the effect is about 20% and is reproducible over many laser and beam shots. This is a proof of principle and the data are fully consistent with the CAS theory. The results of this experiment may have an impact on the LASER fusion method.

KEYWORDS

Vacuum Laser Acceleration; Laser Phase Velocity; VLA

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D. Cline, L. Shao, X. Ding, Y. Ho, Q. Kong and P. Wang, "First Observation of Acceleration of Electrons by a Laser in a Vacuum," Journal of Modern Physics, Vol. 4 No. 1, 2013, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2013.41001.

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