TY - BOOK ID - 8657000 TI - Laser wakefield electron acceleration : a novel approach employing supersonic microjets and few-cycle laser pulses PY - 2011 SN - 3642199496 364219950X PB - Heidelberg : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Cancer -- Radiotherapy. KW - Electron accelerators. KW - Electron beams. KW - Electron optics. KW - Electrons -- Therapeutic use. KW - Supersonic nozzles. KW - Physics KW - Physical Sciences & Mathematics KW - Nuclear Physics KW - Electricity & Magnetism KW - Particle acceleration. KW - Electrons. KW - Lasers. KW - Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation KW - Masers, Optical KW - Optical masers KW - Beams, Electron KW - Corpuscular theory of matter KW - Particles (Nuclear physics) KW - Acceleration KW - Physics. KW - Plasma (Ionized gases). KW - Plasma Physics. KW - Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics. KW - Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices. KW - Acceleration (Mechanics) KW - Nuclear physics KW - Light amplifiers KW - Light sources KW - Optoelectronic devices KW - Nonlinear optics KW - Optical parametric oscillators KW - Electron optics KW - Electronics KW - Particle beams KW - Atoms KW - Leptons (Nuclear physics) KW - Matter KW - Cathode rays KW - Ions KW - Positrons KW - Constitution KW - Photonics. KW - New optics KW - Optics KW - Gaseous discharge KW - Gaseous plasma KW - Magnetoplasma KW - Ionized gases UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8657000 AB - This thesis covers the few-cycle laser-driven acceleration of electrons in a laser-generated plasma. This process, known as laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA), relies on strongly driven plasma waves for the generation of accelerating gradients in the vicinity of several 100 GV/m, a value four orders of magnitude larger than that attainable by conventional accelerators. This thesis demonstrates that laser pulses with an ultrashort duration of 8 fs and a peak power of 6 TW allow the production of electron energies up to 50 MeV via LWFA. The special properties of laser accelerated electron pulses, namely the ultrashort pulse duration, the high brilliance, and the high charge density, open up new possibilities in many applications of these electron beams. ER -