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Observation of longitudinal and transverse self-injections in laser-plasma accelerators
Laser-plasma accelerators can produce high-quality electron beams, up to giga electronvolts in energy, from a centimetre scale device. The properties of the electron beams and the accelerator stability are lar...
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An ultracompact X-ray source based on a laser-plasma undulator
The capability of plasmas to sustain ultrahigh electric fields has attracted considerable interest over the last decades and has given rise to laser-plasma engineering. Today, plasmas are commonly used for acc...
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Open AccessDemonstration of relativistic electron beam focusing by a laser-plasma lens
Laser-plasma technology promises a drastic reduction of the size of high-energy electron accelerators. It could make free-electron lasers available to a broad scientific community and push further the limits o...
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Open AccessShock assisted ionization injection in laser-plasma accelerators
Ionization injection is a simple and efficient method to trap an electron beam in a laser plasma accelerator. Yet, because of a long injection length, this injection technique leads generally to the production...
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Open AccessStable multi-GeV electron accelerator driven by waveform-controlled PW laser pulses
The achievable energy and the stability of accelerated electron beams have been the most critical issues in laser wakefield acceleration. As laser propagation, plasma wave formation and electron acceleration a...
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Open AccessControl of laser plasma accelerated electrons for light sources
With gigaelectron-volts per centimetre energy gains and femtosecond electron beams, laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) is a promising candidate for applications, such as ultrafast electron diffraction, multis...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Control of laser plasma accelerated electrons for light sources
The original version of this Article contained an error in the last sentence of the first paragraph of the Introduction and incorrectly read ‘A proper electron beam control is one of the main challenges toward...
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Open AccessTunable High Spatio-Spectral Purity Undulator Radiation from a Transported Laser Plasma Accelerated Electron Beam
Undulator based synchrotron light sources and Free Electron Lasers (FELs) are valuable modern probes of matter with high temporal and spatial resolution. Laser Plasma Accelerators (LPAs), delivering GeV electr...