Self-truncated ionization injection and consequent monoenergetic electron bunches in laser wakefield acceleration

Ming Zeng,1 Min Chen,1, 2, ∗ Zheng-Ming Sheng,1, 2, † Warren B. Mori,3, 4 and Jie Zhang1, 5 1Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education), Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China 2Department of Mathematics, Institute of Natural Sciences, and MOE-LSC, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 20040, China 3Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA 4Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA 5Beijing National Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, CAS, Beijing 100190, China (Dated: December 25, 2013)