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Laser-pulse-induced generation of attosecond electron bunches on crossing the vacuum–plasma boundary

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A physical mechanism responsible for the self-injection of plasma electrons and the formation of ultrashort electron bunches in the wake wave generated by laser pulse crossing the boundary of inhomogeneous plasma has been studied.

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Original Russian Text © S.V. Kuznetsov, 2016, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2016, Vol. 42, No. 14, pp. 52–58.

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Kuznetsov, S.V. Laser-pulse-induced generation of attosecond electron bunches on crossing the vacuum–plasma boundary. Tech. Phys. Lett. 42, 740–742 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785016070221

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