Generating ultrarelativistic attosecond electron bunches with laser wakefield accelerators

M.J.H. Luttikhof; A.G. Khachatryan; F.A. van Goor; Klaus J. Boller

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.124801

Generating ultrarelativistic attosecond electron bunches with laser wakefield accelerators

M.J.H. Luttikhof, A.G. Khachatryan, F.A. van Goor, Klaus J. Boller

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Femtosecond electron bunches with ultrarelativistic energies were recently generated by laser wakefield accelerators. Here we predict that laser wakefield acceleration can generate even attosecond bunches, due to a strong chirp of the betatron frequency. We show how the bunch duration scales with the acceleration parameters and that, after acceleration, the bunches can propagate over many tens of centimeters without a significant increase in duration.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	124801-1-124801-4
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	105
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.124801
Publication status	Published - 2010

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METIS-271174
EC Grant Agreement nr.: FP6/028514
IR-73051

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