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Observes electron acceleration in plasma, indicating strong laser interactions in plasma waves.
The acceleration of electrons to 0.8 GeV has been observed in a self-injecting laser wakefield accelerator driven at a plasma density of 5.5×10¹⁸ cm^-3 by a 10 J, 55 fs, 800 nm laser pulse in the blowout regime. The laser pulse is found to be self-guided for 1 cm (>10zR), by measurement of a single filament containing $>30%$ of the initial laser energy at this distance. Three-dimensional particle in cell simulations show that the intensity within the guided filament is amplified beyond its initial focused value to a normalized vector potential of a₀>6, thus driving a highly nonlinear plasma wave.
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