Electron acceleration in vacuum by ultrashort and tightly focused radially polarized laser pulses

Abstract

Exact closed-form solutions to Maxwell's equations are used to investigate electron acceleration driven by radially polarized laser beams in the nonparaxial and ultrashort pulse regime. Besides allowing for higher energy gains, such beams could generate synchronized counterpropagating electron bunches.

arXiv comment3 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the Ultrafast Phenomena XVIII conference

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• Direct acceleration of an electron in infinite vacuum by a pulsed radially-polarized laser beam
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