Interaction of relativistic electrons with ultrashort laser pulses: Generation of femtosecond X-rays and microprobing of electron beams

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作者
Leemans, WP
Schoenlein, RW
Volfbeyn, P
Chin, AH
Glover, TE
Balling, P
Zolotorev, M
Kim, KJ
Chattopadhyay, S
Shank, CV
机构
[1] UNIV CALIF BERKELEY, ERNEST ORLANDO LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATL LAB, DIV MAT SCI, BERKELEY, CA 94720 USA
[2] UNIV CALIF BERKELEY, DEPT PHYS, BERKELEY, CA 94720 USA
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美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1109/3.641307
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
The interaction of relativistic electrons with terawatt femtosecond laser pulses is reviewed with emphasis on how the scattering process can be used as a source of ultrashort X-ray pulses and as a time-resolved diagnostic for measuring transverse and longitudinal phase space distributions of an electron beam with microns spatial and subpicosecond temporal resolution, Recent experimental results are presented in which 90 degrees Thomson scattering was utilized to generate 300 fs duration pulses of X-rays with peak energy of 30 keV, It is shown that, through analysis of the scattered X-ray beam properties, transverse and longitudinal distributions of the electron beam can be obtained.
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页码:1925 / 1934
页数:10
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