Upcoming and planned experiments combining increasingly intense lasers and energetic
particle beams will access new regimes of nonlinear, relativistic, quantum effects. This …

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 …

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 …

Compact, tunable, radially symmetric focusing of electrons is critical to laser-plasma
accelerator (LPA) applications. Experiments are presented demonstrating the use of a …

Advanced manufacturing technologies, led by additive manufacturing, have undergone
significant growth in recent years. These technologies enable engineers to design parts with …

One of the most prominent applications of modern particle accelerators is the generation of
radiation. In a synchrotron or an x-ray free electron laser (XFEL), high energy electrons …

Effects of nonlinearity in Thomson scattering of a high intensity laser pulse from electrons
are analyzed. Analytic expressions for laser pulse sha** in frequency (chir**) are …

Readily available bright X-ray beams with narrow bandwidth and tunable energy promise to
unlock novel developments in a wide range of applications. Among emerging alternatives to …

Near-monoenergetic photon sources at MeV energies offer improved sensitivity at greatly
reduced dose for active interrogation, and new capabilities in treaty verification …

Active plasma lenses have attracted interest in novel accelerator applications due to their
ability to provide large-field-gradient (short focal length), tunable, and radially symmetric …