Extending laser plasma accelerators into the mid-IR spectral domain with a next-generation ultra-fast CO 2 laser

Abstract Expanding the scope of relativistic plasma research to wavelengths longer than the λ /≈ 0.8–1.1 μ m range covered by conventional mode-locked solid-state lasers would offer attractive opportunities due to the quadratic scaling of the ponderomotive electron energy and critical plasma density... View More