Efficient Acceleration of Electrons by Moderate-Power Femtosecond Laser Pulses

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Abstract

The relativistic self-trapping of a laser pulse is an efficient mechanism for the acceleration of electrons, which
allows one to achieve an extreme charge of a high-energy particle beam and the corresponding conversion
coefficient of laser energy. It has been shown that the compression of the femtosecond laser pulse in this
regime using the innovative compression after compressor approach (CafCA) [E.A. Khazanov,
S.Yu. Mironov, and G. Mourou, Phys. Usp. 62, 1096 (2019)] to extremely short durations keeping the energy
of the laser beam significantly increases the efficiency of particle acceleration. This effect has been illustrated
on the example of the Multitera laser facility for the project implemented at the Russian National Center for
Physics and Mathematics.

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O. E. Vays

Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences; Center of Fundamental and Applied Research, Dukhov All-Russia Research Institute of Automatics

Email: ovais@lebedev.ru
Moscow, 119991 Russia; Moscow, 127030 Russia

M. G. Lobok

Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences; Center of Fundamental and Applied Research, Dukhov All-Russia Research Institute of Automatics

Email: ovais@lebedev.ru
Moscow, 119991 Russia; Moscow, 127030 Russia

A. A. Solov'ev

Federal Research Center Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: ovais@lebedev.ru
Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Russia

S. Yu. Mironov

Federal Research Center Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: ovais@lebedev.ru
Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Russia

E. A. Khazanov

Federal Research Center Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: ovais@lebedev.ru
Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Russia

V. Yu. Bychenkov

Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences; Center of Fundamental and Applied Research, Dukhov All-Russia Research Institute of Automatics

Author for correspondence.
Email: ovais@lebedev.ru
Moscow, 119991 Russia; Moscow, 127030 Russia

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