Abstract
Laser-driven high-energy electrons are becoming unique and important sources in various research disciplines including radiobiology and medicine as well as basic science and nuclear engineering. The primitive idea on the laser-field-assisted electron acceleration was proposed by Tajima and Dawson in 1979, and since then tremendous progress has been made to realize multi-GeV electron beams through the laser-matter interaction. Despite the marvelous success in the laser-driven high-energy electron generation, considerable improvements in terms of physical parameters such as maximum energy, stability, mono-energeticity, charge, and so on are still requested for practical engineering applications. In this chapter, the basic principle and parameters for building a laser-driven electron accelerator is briefly described and the outstanding experimental achievements carried out in the laser-driven electron acceleration are summarized in following sections. Finally, the bio-medical applications of laser-driven high-energy electron beams are introduced before concluding the chapter. The unique high-energy electron beams driven by ultrashort high-power laser pulses will be a promising source for a next-generation, compact, low-cost, high-resolution imaging machine for bio-medical engineering.
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Jeong, T.M., Lee, J. (2016). Generation of Multi-GeV Electron Beams and Bio-medical Applications. In: Giulietti, A. (eds) Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration Towards Radiobiology and Medicine. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31563-8_6
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