Controlled injection and acceleration of electrons in plasma wakefields by colliding laser pulses
By J. Faure, C. Rechatin, A. Norlin, A. Lifschitz, Y. Glinec, Victor Malka. Nature, 2006
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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Mechanics of Materials, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- Developments in laser-driven plasma accelerators (2013, background): “A wide range of ideas are being explored, including: the use of additional laser pulses [78, 79]; slowing the plasma wakefield with a region of decreasing plasma density [44, 80–83]; introducing an abrupt jump in the plasma density [84, 85]; and ionization of species doped into the plasma [51, 86–89”
- A compact synchrotron radiation source driven by a laser-plasma wakefield accelerator (2008, background): “The enormous progress in improving beam quality and stabilit”
- Laser-driven particle and photon beams and some applications (2010, background): “However, this has already started to being addressed by operating counter-propagating laser beams (Faure et al 2006).”
- Real-time observation of laser-driven electron acceleration (2011, background): “and improved stability and control over the energy spectrum and charg”
- Laser-driven soft-X-ray undulator source (2009, background): “Detection of undulator radiation in some 70% of consecutive driver-laser shots indicates a remarkable reproducibility for a first proof-of-concept demonstration experiment.”
- Experimental Evidence of Radiation Reaction in the Collision of a High-Intensity Laser Pulse with a Laser-Wakefield Accelerated Electron Beam (2017, neutral): “After overlapping the focused pulses on the tip of the prism, half of each was reflected collinearly onto a CCD [35] and imaged with a 10 × magnification microscope objective.”
- Stable generation of GeV-class electron beams from self-guided laser–plasma channels (2008, background): “It should be noted that stable electron beams in the 200–250 MeV range with a narrower energy spread and lower charge were recently observed in a more sophisticated experimen”
- Few femtosecond, few kiloampere electron bunch produced by a laser-plasma accelerator (2011, methodology): “Our analysis shows that the electron beam, produced using controlled optical injectio”
- Applications of laser wakefield accelerator-based light sources (2016, methodology): “These include colliding-pulse injection [29, 50], density gradient injection [59, 61], inner-shell ionization-induced trapping [65, 66, 69], cold injection [55], and transverse control of self-injection using counter-propagating lasers [56] or external magnetic fields [57].”
- Tunable laser plasma accelerator based on longitudinal density tailoring (2011, methodology): “2 (b-f) compared with 5− 11mrad beams produced with other state-of-the-art injection techniques [14, 20].”