Electron self-injection into an evolving plasma bubble: Quasi-monoenergetic laser-plasma acceleration in the blowout regime

SY Kalmykov, A Beck, SA Yi, VN Khudik… - Physics of …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
An electron density bubble driven in a rarefied uniform plasma by a slowly evolving laser
pulse goes through periods of adiabatically slow expansions and contractions. Bubble …

Controlled electron injection into the wake wave using plasma density inhomogeneity

AV Brantov, TZ Esirkepov, M Kando, H Kotaki… - Physics of …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
The electron injection, for the laser wake field accelerator, controlled through the plasma
density inhomogeneity is studied on a basis of analytical estimates and two-and three …

[HTML][HTML] A multi-sheath model for highly nonlinear plasma wakefields

TN Dalichaouch, XL Xu, A Tableman, F Li… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
An improved description for nonlinear plasma wakefields with phase velocities near the
speed of light is presented and compared against fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations …

Generation of ultrabright and low energy spread electron beams in laser wakefield acceleration in a uniform plasma

X Xu, TN Dalichaouch, J Liu, Q Ma, J Pierce… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2023 - APS
The quality of electron beams produced from plasma-based accelerators, ie, normalized
brightness and energy spread, has made transformative progress in the past several …

Generation of 20 kA electron beam from a laser wakefield accelerator

YF Li, DZ Li, K Huang, MZ Tao, MH Li, JR Zhao… - Physics of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We present the experimentally generated electron bunch from laser-wakefield acceleration
(LWFA) with a charge of 620 pC and a maximum energy up to 0.6 GeV by irradiating 80 TW …

Self-focusing of an elliptic-Gaussian laser beam in relativistic ponderomotive plasma using a ramp density profile

H Kumar, M Aggarwal, Richa, TS Gill - journal of the optical society of …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The propagation characteristics of an elliptic-Gaussian beam in non-uniform plasma have
been investigated by taking into account the combined effects of relativistic and …

Laser wakefield electron acceleration with polarization-dependent ionization injection

M Rezaei-Pandari, M Mirzaie, CI Hojbota, TG Pak… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
The effect of laser polarization on the laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) of electrons has
been investigated in the bubble regime, in particular when assisted by ionization injection …

Parametric analysis of electron beam quality in laser wakefield acceleration based on the truncated ionization injection mechanism

S Maity, A Mondal, E Vishnyakov… - Plasma Physics and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) in a gas cell target separating injection and
acceleration section has been investigated to produce high-quality electron beams. A …

High quality beam produced by tightly focused laser driven wakefield accelerators

J Wang, M Zeng, D Li, X Wang, J Gao - Physical Review Accelerators and …, 2023 - APS
We propose to use tightly focused lasers to generate high quality electron beams in laser
wakefield accelerators. In this scheme, the expansion of the laser beam after the focal …

Numerical modelling of a 10-cm-long multi-GeV laser wakefield accelerator driven by a self-guided petawatt pulse

SY Kalmykov, SA Yi, A Beck, AF Lifschitz… - New Journal of …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The use of a short-pulse petawatt (PW) laser (τ L< 200 fs, wavelength≈ 1 μm) enables
experimental realization of a self-guided, multi-centimetre-long multi-GeV laser wakefield …