X-ray emission from laser-accelerated electrons and its use as diagnostic of laser-plasma interaction

Sébastien Corde (1) , Cédric Thaury (1) , Kim Ta Phuoc (1) , Agustin Lifschitz (1) , Rémi Lehe (1) , Emilien Guillaume (1) , Guillaume Lambert (1) , Antoine Rousse (1) , Victor Malka (1)

1 LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée

X-ray radiation emitted by electrons during their acceleration in a laser-plasma accelerator was used to evidence two distincts self-injection mechanisms (longitudinal and transverse) and to identify one source of angular-momentum growth in laser-plasma accelerators. (c) 2014 Optical Society of America

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]; Physique des plasmas [physics.plasm-ph]

Sébastien Corde, Cédric Thaury, Kim Ta Phuoc, Agustin Lifschitz, Rémi Lehe, et al.. X-ray emission from laser-accelerated electrons and its use as diagnostic of laser-plasma interaction. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Jun 2014, San Jose, CA, United States. ⟨10.1364/CLEO_AT.2014.JTh3L.1⟩. ⟨hal-01402126⟩