Net acceleration and direct measurement of attosecond electron pulses in a silicon dielectric laser accelerator

DS Black, U Niedermayer, Y Miao, Z Zhao, O Solgaard… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Net acceleration of attosecond-scale electron pulses is critical to the development of on-chip
accelerators. We demonstrate a silicon-based laser-driven two-stage accelerator as an …

Enhanced energy gain in a dielectric laser accelerator using a tilted pulse front laser

D Cesar, J Maxson, X Shen, KP Wootton, S Tan… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Using an 800 nm, 45 fs pulse-front-tilted laser we demonstrate a record 315 keV energy gain
in a dual grating dielectric laser accelerator (DLA) and average accelerating gradients of …

Laser-driven electron lensing in silicon microstructures

DS Black, KJ Leedle, Y Miao, U Niedermayer, RL Byer… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We demonstrate a laser-driven, tunable electron lens fabricated in monolithic silicon. The
lens consists of an array of silicon pillars pumped symmetrically by two 300 fs, 1.95 μ m …

A compact electron source for the dielectric laser accelerator

T Hirano, KE Urbanek, AC Ceballos, DS Black… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we design and demonstrate a compact electron source that combines an
integrated silicon nanotip photoemitter with a compact silicon-based electrostatic lens. The …

Conceptual and technical design aspects of accelerators for external injection in LWFA

B Marchetti, R Assmann, U Dorda, J Zhu - Applied Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Laser driven Wake-Field Acceleration (LWFA) has proven its capability of accelerating
electron bunches (e-bunches) to up to 4 GeV energy in a single stage while reaching …

Generation and measurement of sub-micrometer relativistic electron beams

S Borrelli, GL Orlandi, M Bednarzik, C David… - Communications …, 2018 - nature.com
The generation of low-emittance electron beams has received significant interest in recent
years. Driven by the requirements of X-ray-free electron lasers, the emittance of …

[PDF][PDF] Studies towards acceleration of relativistic electron beams in laser-driven dielectric microstructures

W Kuropka - 2020 - bib-pubdb1.desy.de
In this work an approach to relativistic electron acceleration employing laser-driven dielectric
microstructures (DLA) is considered. New DLA designs were developed, a simulation code …

Low-loss GaOx-core/SiO2-cladding planar waveguides on Si substrate

S Tan, H Deng, KE Urbanek, Y Miao, Z Zhao… - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The unique properties of gallium oxide (GaO_x) have drawn increasing interest as a
material suitable for high-power electronic and optical applications. Herein, we report the …

Development of a silicon strip detector for novel accelerators at SINBAD

S Jaster-Merz, RW Assmann, F Burkart… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
At the SINBAD facility (DESY Hamburg), novel particle acceleration techniques like dielectric
laser acceleration (DLA) structures will be tested using the ARES linac. Due to the small size …

AII Optical control of beam dynamics in a DLA

D Cesar, P Musumeci, J England - 2018 IEEE Advanced …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dielectric laser acceleration draws upon nanofabrication techniques to build photonic
structures for high gradient electron acceleration. At the small spatial scales characteristic of …