Thomas, Alexander George Roy and Mangles, Stuart P. D. and Najmudin, Zulfikar and Murphy, C. D. and Dangor, Aboobaker E. and Rozmus, W. and Krushelnick, Karl and Foster, P. S. and Norreys, Peter A. and Gallacher, J. G. and Jaroszynski, D. A. and Mori, Warren B. (2006) The effect of laser focusing conditions in laser wakefield acceleration experiments. In: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006 . IEEE. ISBN 9781557528131
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The effect of focusing conditions in laser wakefield acceleration is studied. Short focal length geometries produce large dark currents while longer focal lengths produce narrow energy spread beams.