Vacuum electron acceleration driven by two crossed Airy beams
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Jian-Xing Li1, Xiao-Long Fan, Wei-Ping Zang
1Photonics Center, School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Abstract:
Using numerical simulation, we have studied in detail vacuum electron acceleration driven by two crossed Airy beams with identical characteristics except for opposite accelerating directions. An electron injected along the longitudinal central axis is only affected by the combined longitudinal electric field. In addition, a suitable crossed Airy beams scheme is more beneficial to the energy gain of an electron than the single Airy beam acceleration scheme [Opt. Lett. 35, 3258 (2010)]. Meanwhile, the cross angle, the injection energy of the electron, and the initial phase of the Airy beams play significant roles in the energy gain of the electron.
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