Applications of laser wakefield accelerator-based light sources

F Albert, AGR Thomas - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2016‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Laser-wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) were proposed more than three decades ago, and
while they promise to deliver compact, high energy particle accelerators, they will also …

Femtosecond x rays from laser-plasma accelerators

S Corde, K Ta Phuoc, G Lambert, R Fitour, V Malka… - Reviews of Modern …, 2013‏ - APS
Relativistic interaction of short-pulse lasers with underdense plasmas has recently led to the
emergence of a novel generation of femtosecond x-ray sources. Based on radiation from …

Pushing the frontier in the design of laser-based electron accelerators with groundbreaking mesh-refined particle-in-cell simulations on exascale-class …

L Fedeli, A Huebl, F Boillod-Cerneux… - … conference for high …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
(150 word max) We present a first-of-kind mesh-refined (MR) massively parallel Particle-In-
Cell (PIC) code for kinetic plasma simulations optimized on the Frontier, Fugaku, Summit …

Petawatt laser guiding and electron beam acceleration to 8 GeV in a laser-heated capillary discharge waveguide

AJ Gonsalves, K Nakamura, J Daniels, C Benedetti… - Physical review …, 2019‏ - APS
Guiding of relativistically intense laser pulses with peak power of 0.85 PW over 15 diffraction
lengths was demonstrated by increasing the focusing strength of a capillary discharge …

Physics of laser-driven plasma-based electron accelerators

E Esarey, CB Schroeder, WP Leemans - Reviews of modern physics, 2009‏ - APS
Laser-driven plasma-based accelerators, which are capable of supporting fields in excess of
100 GV∕ m, are reviewed. This includes the laser wakefield accelerator, the plasma beat …

[HTML][HTML] EuPRAXIA conceptual design report

RW Assmann, MK Weikum, T Akhter, D Alesini… - The European Physical …, 2020‏ - Springer
This report presents the conceptual design of a new European research infrastructure
EuPRAXIA. The concept has been established over the last four years in a unique …

Enhancement of electron energy to the multi-GeV regime by a dual-stage laser-wakefield accelerator pumped by petawatt laser pulses

HT Kim, KH Pae, HJ Cha, IJ Kim, TJ Yu, JH Sung… - Physical review …, 2013‏ - APS
Laser-wakefield acceleration offers the promise of a compact electron accelerator for
generating a multi-GeV electron beam using the huge field gradient induced by an intense …

Developments in laser-driven plasma accelerators

SM Hooker - Nature Photonics, 2013‏ - nature.com
Laser-driven plasma accelerators provide acceleration gradients that are three orders of
magnitude greater than those generated by conventional accelerators, offering the potential …

Injection and trap** of tunnel-ionized electrons into laser-produced wakes

A Pak, KA Marsh, SF Martins, W Lu, WB Mori, C Joshi - Physical review letters, 2010‏ - APS
A method, which utilizes the large difference in ionization potentials between successive
ionization states of trace atoms, for injecting electrons into a laser-driven wakefield is …

Diagnostics for plasma-based electron accelerators

MC Downer, R Zgadzaj, A Debus, U Schramm… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018‏ - APS
Plasma-based accelerators that impart energy gain as high as several GeV to electrons or
positrons within a few centimeters have engendered a new class of diagnostic techniques …