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Relativistic attosecond electron pulses from cascaded acceleration using ultra-intense radially polarized laser beams

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Ultrafast Phenomena XVI

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Attosecond electron pulses with peak energy above 200 MeV could be produced with ultrafast 100-TW radially polarized laser beams in a two-stage configuration. Such electron beams would be collimated and potentially quasi-monoenergetic.

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  1. University of Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Ottawa, Canada

    Charles Varin

  2. Centre d’optique, photonique et laser, Université Laval, Qc G1V 0A6, Québec, Canada

    Pierre-Louis Fortin & Michel Piché

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Correspondence to Charles Varin or Pierre-Louis Fortin .

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  1. National Research Council Canada, Sussex Drive 100, Ottawa, K1A 0R6, Canada

    Paul Corkum

  2. Dipto. Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milano, 20133, Italy

    Sandro Silvestri

  3. Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of, Massachusetts Ave. 77, Cambridge, 02139, USA

    Keith A. Nelson

  4. Sektion Physik, Univ. München, Oettingenstr. 67, München, 80538, Germany

    Eberhard Riedle

  5. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Cyclotron Road 1, Berkeley, 94720, USA

    Robert W. Schoenlein

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Varin, C., Fortin, PL., Piché, M. (2009). Relativistic attosecond electron pulses from cascaded acceleration using ultra-intense radially polarized laser beams. In: Corkum, P., Silvestri, S., Nelson, K., Riedle, E., Schoenlein, R. (eds) Ultrafast Phenomena XVI. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 92. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-95946-5_50

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