Simulation study of electron injection into plasma wake fields by colliding laser pulses using OOPIC

An electron injector concept for a laser-plasma accelerator has been developed which relies on the use of counter propagating ultrashort laser pulses.In this paper,we use OOPIC the fully self-consistent,twodimensional.particle-in-cell code to make a parameter study to determine the bunches that can be obtained through collisions of two collinear laser pulses in uniform plasma.A series of simulations show that one can obtain a short(＜10fs)bunch with its charge of about 15pC,and energy spread of about 15%.We also discussed the variation of the transverse spot size of the electron bunch and found the bunch would undergo the betatron oscillations.