Effect of a tightly focused chirped Gaussian laser pulse on electron acceleration in helical undulator

Abstract

The chirped-pulse inverse free electron laser (CIFEL) interaction has been investigated by considering a tightly focused chirped Gaussian laser pulse and a helical undulator in vacuum. We consider the more realistic description of a laser, i.e., seventh-order calculation in the spatial term and first-order calculation in the temporal term. Numerical calculations show that better electron acceleration can be achieved using a tightly focused chirped Gaussian laser pulse in the CIFEL scheme. The investigation shows that a 10 MeV electron can be accelerated up to a few giga-electron volts energy with the present available laser parameters.