[HTML][HTML] Spatio-temporal characterization of ultrashort laser beams: a tutorial

SW Jolly, O Gobert, F Quéré - Journal of Optics, 2020‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The temporal characterization of ultrafast laser pulses has become a cornerstone capability
of ultrafast optics laboratories and is routine both for optimizing laser pulse duration and …

Multi-GeV electron acceleration in wakefields strongly driven by oversized laser spots

K Poder, JC Wood, NC Lopes, JM Cole, S Alatabi… - Physical review …, 2024‏ - APS
Experiments were performed on laser wakefield acceleration in the highly nonlinear regime.
With laser powers P< 250 TW and using an initial spot size larger than the matched spot size …

Identifying observable carrier-envelope phase effects in laser wakefield acceleration with near-single-cycle pulses

J Huijts, IA Andriyash, L Rovige, A Vernier… - Physics of Plasmas, 2021‏ - pubs.aip.org
Driving laser wakefield acceleration with extremely short, near single-cycle laser pulses is
crucial to the realization of an electron source that can operate at kHz-repetition rate while …

Coupling to multi-mode waveguides with space-time shaped free-space pulses

SW Jolly, P Kockaert - Journal of Optics, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Guided wave optics, including most prominently fiber optics and integrated photonics, very
often considers only one or very few spatial modes of the waveguides. Despite being known …

Optimization of electron bunch quality using a chirped laser pulse in laser wakefield acceleration

A Jain, DN Gupta - Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, 2021‏ - APS
In this work, we perform particle-in-cell simulations to investigate the electron bunch quality
using a chirped laser pulse in a laser wakefield acceleration mechanism. Particular attention …

Spatio-spectral couplings in saturated collinear OPCPA

T Eichner, T Hülsenbusch, J Dirkwinkel, T Lang… - Optics express, 2022‏ - opg.optica.org
Ultrafast laser pulses featuring both high spatio-temporal beam quality and excellent energy
stability are crucial for many applications. Here, we present a seed laser with high beam …

Optical steering of electron beam in laser plasma accelerators

C Zhu, J Wang, Y Li, J Feng, D Li, Y He, J Tan, J Ma… - Optics …, 2020‏ - opg.optica.org
Using a Dazzler system and tilting a compressor grating, we provide an effective way of
using the laser group delay dispersion to continuously steer the electron beam accelerated …

Laser-driven pointed acceleration of electrons with preformed plasma lens

KA Ivanov, DA Gorlova, IN Tsymbalov… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2024‏ - APS
The simultaneous laser-driven acceleration and angular manipulation of the fast electron
beam are experimentally demonstrated. The bunch of multi-MeV energy charged particles is …

Distortions in focusing laser pulses due to spatio-temporal couplings: an analytic description

K Steiniger, F Dietrich, D Albach… - High Power Laser …, 2024‏ - cambridge.org
In ultra-short laser pulses, small changes in dispersion properties before the final focusing
mirror can lead to severe pulse distortions around the focus and therefore to very different …

Restoring betatron phase coherence in a beam-loaded laser-wakefield accelerator

A Köhler, R Pausch, M Bussmann, JPC Cabadağ… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2021‏ - APS
Matched beam loading in laser wakefield acceleration, characterizing the state of flattening
the accelerating electric field along the bunch, leads to the minimization of energy spread at …