Laser field absorption in self-generated electron-positron pair plasma

EN Nerush, IY Kostyukov, AM Fedotov, NB Narozhny… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
Recently, much attention has been attracted to the problem of limitations on the attainable
intensity of high power lasers [AM Fedotov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 080402 (2010) PRLTAO …

Attosecond electromagnetic pulses: Generation, measurement, and application, attosecond metrology and spectroscopy

MYE Ryabikin, MYE Emelin, VV Strelkov - Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk, 2023 - ufn.ru
When intense laser radiation interacts with matter, high-order harmonic generation (HHG)
takes place; recent achievements in this area were reported by the authors in a review [VV …

Laser-accelerated, low-divergence 15-MeV quasimonoenergetic electron bunches at 1 kHz

F Salehi, M Le, L Railing, M Kolesik, HM Milchberg - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
We demonstrate laser wakefield acceleration of quasimonoenergetic electron bunches up to
15 MeV at 1-kHz repetition rate with 2.5-pC charge per bunch and a core with< 7-mrad …

Propagation of intense laser pulses in plasma with a prepared phase-space distribution

DN Gupta, SR Yoffe, A Jain, B Ersfeld… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Optimizing the laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA) requires control of the intense driving
laser pulse and its stable propagation. This is usually challenging because of mode …

SYLOS lasers–the frontier of few-cycle, multi-TW, kHz lasers for ultrafast applications at extreme light infrastructure attosecond light pulse source

S Tóth, T Stanislauskas, I Balciunas… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The extreme light infrastructure attosecond light pulse source offers beamtime for users of
various attosecond and particle sources driven by versatile laser systems. Here we report on …

Plasma-based methods for electron acceleration: current status and prospects

IY Kostyukov, AM Pukhov - Physics-Uspekhi, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a short review of the current status of plasma-based methods for electron
acceleration. Plasma acceleration mechanisms are described, with an emphasis on the …

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 …

Transverse oscillating bubble enhanced laser-driven betatron X-ray radiation generation

R Rakowski, P Zhang, K Jensen, B Kettle… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Ultrafast high-brightness X-ray pulses have proven invaluable for a broad range of research.
Such pulses are typically generated via synchrotron emission from relativistic electron …

Electron acceleration by a radially-polarized laser pulse in a plasma micro-channel

M Wen, YI Salamin, CH Keitel - Optics Express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Encouraged by recent advances in radially-polarized laser technology, simulations have
been performed of electron acceleration by a tightly-focused, ultra-short pulse in a parabolic …

Subfemtosecond wakefield injector and accelerator based on an undulating plasma bubble controlled by a laser phase

J Kim, T Wang, V Khudik, G Shvets - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We demonstrate that a long-propagating plasma bubble executing undulatory motion can be
produced in the wake of two copropagating laser pulses: a near-single-cycle injector and a …