%0 Conference Paper
%F Oral 
%T Observations of longitudinal and transverse self-injections in laser-plasma wakefield accelerators
%+ Laboratoire d'optique appliquée (LOA)
%A Thaury, Cédric
%A Corde, Sébastien
%A Lifschitz, Agustin
%A Lambert, Guillaume
%A TA PHUOC, KIM
%A Davoine, X.
%A Lehe,, R.
%A Douillet, D.
%A Rousse, Antoine
%A Malka, Victor
%< avec comité de lecture
%B Conference on Laser Acceleration of Electrons, Protons, and Ions II; and Medical Applications of Laser-Generated Beams of Particles II; and Harnessing Relativistic Plasma Waves III
%C Prague, Czech Republic
%8 2013-04-15
%D 2013
%R 10.1117/12.2017422
%K Laser-plasma accelerator
%K self-injection
%K stability
%K transverse injection
%K longitudinal injection
%Z Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics]
%Z Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Plasma Physics [physics.plasm-ph]Conference papers
%X One of the key ingredients of laser-plasma accelerators is their injector, which defines how electrons are trapped into the laser-driven plasma wave. The stability and control of laser-plasma electron bunches strongly depends on this injection stage. Self-injection is a convenient way to achieve the electron trapping and is the most widely used injector. Here we demonstrate, by using a variable length gas cell, that injection can be achieved by either longitudinal or transverse self-injection, giving rise to very different electron beam features. The results are supported by 3 dimensional particle-in-cell simulations.
%G English
%L hal-01402024
%U https://hal-ensta-paris.archives-ouvertes.fr//hal-01402024
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