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1Electronic and Computer Engineering Department, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Optics Express
|April 15, 2009
Abstract:
Relativistically-intense laser beam with large field gradient ("laser gate") enables strong inelastic scattering of electrons crossing the beam. This process allows for multi-MeV electron net acceleration per pass within the wavelength space. Inelastic scattering even in low-gradient laser field may also induce extremely tight temporal focusing and electron bunch formation down to quantum, zeptosecond limit.
