He, Zhaohan and Nees, John A. and Hou, Bixue and Beaurepaire, Benoit and Malka, Victor and Krushelnick, Karl and Faure, Jerome and Thomas, Alexander George Roy (2013) A high-repetition-rate laser-wakefield accelerator for studies of electron acceleration. Proceedings of SPIE, 8779. ISSN 0277-786X
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We report on an experimental demonstration of laser wake field electron acceleration using few-milijoule laser pulses tightly focused on a 100 μm scale gas target. Using a comparatively low energy pulse has the benefit of a more compact system with a high repetition rate (typically kHz), which can prove useful for both practical applications and better statistical studies of laser plasma interactions. A proof-of-principle experiment was conducted to demonstrate the applicability of such electron sources from laser plasma wake field accelerator for ultrafast electron diffraction.