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High-efficiency acceleration by the combination of laser and electrostatic field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2014

H. Lin ,
C.P. Liu ,
C. Wang  and
B.F. Shen
H. Lin*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Information Technology Research Center of Space Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Shanghai, China
C.P. Liu
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Information Technology Research Center of Space Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Shanghai, China
C. Wang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Information Technology Research Center of Space Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Shanghai, China
B.F. Shen
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Information Technology Research Center of Space Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Shanghai, China
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: H. Lin, State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Information Technology Research Center of Space Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, P. O. Box 800-211, Shanghai 201800, China. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

A new scheme of particle acceleration is verified by the investigation on single-body dynamics of charged particle in a compound field setup. This compound field setup contains a linear polarized laser field and a DC electric field which is along the direction of laser magnetic field. This setup can cause a charged particle to be of aperiodic motion and significantly high kinetic energy. Moreover, the contribution from the motion vertical to accelerating electric field is fully taken into account and is found to be essential to efficient acceleration. The efficiency of such a setup in acceleration is higher than that of a single laser.

Keywords

Electrostatic fieldLaserVacuum acceleration
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , December 2014 , pp. 577 - 581
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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