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Vacuum laser acceleration by an ultrashort, high-intensity laser pulse with a sharp rising edge

Ya Cheng, Zhizhan Xu

Applied Physics Letters · 1999 · 35 citations · 12 references

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Abstract

A laser vacuum electron acceleration scheme is proposed in this letter. By the help of a one-dimensional model, we find that an ultrashort, high-intensity, plane-wave laser pulse with a sharp rising edge can be used to accelerate electrons to relativistic energy in vacuum.

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