Experimental demonstration shows laser-driven acceleration of 50 MeV electron beams at 1 kHz repetition rate, highlighting potential advances in medical imaging and cancer therapy.
We show the laser-driven acceleration of unprecedented, collimated (2 mrad divergence), and quasi-monoenergetic (25% energy spread) electron beams with energy up to 50 MeV at 1 kHz repetition rate. The laser driver is a multi-cycle (15 fs) 1 kHz optical parametric chirped pulse amplification system, operating at 26 mJ (1.7 TW). The scalability of the driver laser technology and the electron beams reported in this work pave the way toward developing high-brilliance x-ray sources for medical imaging and innovative devices for brain cancer treatment and represent a step toward the realization of a kHz GeV electron beamline.
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