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Low transverse emittance electron bunches from two-color laser-ionization injection

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arxiv 1305.4149 v1 pith:NPMA6G5H submitted 2013-05-17 physics.plasm-ph

Low transverse emittance electron bunches from two-color laser-ionization injection

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keywords injectionelectronhigh-zionizationpulsebunchesemittanceinner-shell
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A method is proposed to generate low emittance electron bunches from two color laser pulses in a laser-plasma accelerator. A two-region gas structure is used, containing a short region of a high-Z gas (e.g., krypton) for ionization injection, followed by a longer region of a low-Z gas for post-acceleration. A long-laser-wavelength (e.g., 5 micron) pump pulse excites plasma wake without triggering the inner-shell electron ionization of the high-Z gas due to low electric fields. A short-laser-wavelength (e.g., 0.4 micron) injection pulse, located at a trapping phase of the wake, ionizes the inner-shell electrons of the high-Z gas, resulting in ionization-induced trapping. Compared with a single-pulse ionization injection, this scheme offers an order of magnitude smaller residual transverse momentum of the electron bunch, which is a result of the smaller vector potential amplitude of the injection pulse.

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