Abstract
Recently, there has been great interest in the production of large amplitude electron plasma waves (EPW) because of their potential application for particle acceleration or photon acceleration [1]. In the laser wake field (LWF) scheme, the EPW is excited by the ponderomotive force associated with the temporal profile of a short laser pulse. The EPW amplitude is maximum when the laser pulse duration is close to the inverse plasma pulsation. The LWF process is very attractive because the width of its resonance is much larger than in the laser beat-wave acceleration mechanism [1].
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