Wakefield accelerators

Lanex screen, 173 Langmuir Laboratory, 114 Laser machining, 82 Laser pulse contrast, 173 Laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA), 149, 165, 169... 

Picosecond pedestal, 143 Pin-hole camera, 128 Plasma channels, 112, 147, 148 Plasma defocusing, 84, 91 Plasma frequency, 166 Plasma index of refraction, 147 Plasma mirror (PM) technique, 194 Plasma wakefield acceleration, 172 Plasma wavelength, 166 Plasma-induced effects, 83 Polarization, 97 Polarization control, 87 Ponderomotive force, 170 Population inversions, 19 Post-irradiation spectroscopy, 156 Pre-pulse, 143 Propagation, 81 Protein, 102 Pump depletion, 151... 

Recently, new techniques such as laser-driven photocathode accel-erators have increased the time resolution available for radiation-chemical studies. They have been of great use in studying fast electron-transfer processes, but are not the one-to-two orders of magnitude improvement that would be needed to explore some of the fundamental questions of electron-precursor reactions and initial distribution of radiolytically produced species. Newer techniques, such as the laser-wakefield accelerator, have the potential to answer these sorts of questions however, they have not reached their maximum potential. ... 

Ogata A, Nakajima K, Kozawa T, Yoshida Y. (1996) Femtosecond single-bunched linac for pulse radiolysis based on laser wakefield acceleration. IEEE Trans Plasma Science 24 453-459. 

Laser wakefield accelerators for ultrafast pulse radiolysis... 

Oulianov DA, Crowell BA, Gosztola DJ, Shkrob lA, Korovyanko OJ, Rey-de-Castro RC. (2007) Ultrafast pulse radiolysis using a terawatt laser wakefield accelerator. JApplPhys 101 053102. 

Geddes CGR, Toth CS, Van Tilborg J, Esarey E, Schroeder CB, Bmhwiler D, Cary J, Leemans WP. (2004) High-quality electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator using plasma-channel guiding. Nature 431 538-541. 

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