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 …

Optics in the relativistic regime

GA Mourou, T Tajima, SV Bulanov - Reviews of modern physics, 2006‏ - APS
The advent of ultraintense laser pulses generated by the technique of chirped pulse
amplification (CPA) along with the development of high-fluence laser materials has opened …

High-quality electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator using plasma-channel guiding

CGR Geddes, C Toth, J Van Tilborg, E Esarey… - Nature, 2004‏ - nature.com
Laser-driven accelerators, in which particles are accelerated by the electric field of a plasma
wave (the wakefield) driven by an intense laser, have demonstrated accelerating electric …

Monoenergetic beams of relativistic electrons from intense laser–plasma interactions

SPD Mangles, CD Murphy, Z Najmudin, AGR Thomas… - Nature, 2004‏ - nature.com
High-power lasers that fit into a university-scale laboratory can now reach focused
intensities of more than 1019 W cm-2 at high repetition rates. Such lasers are capable of …

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 …

Short‐pulse laser harmonics from oscillating plasma surfaces driven at relativistic intensity

R Lichters, J Meyer‐ter‐Vehn, A Pukhov - Physics of Plasmas, 1996‏ - pubs.aip.org
The generation of harmonics by interaction of an ultrashort laser pulse with a step boundary
of a plane overdense plasma layer is studied at intensities I λ2= 1017–1019 W cm− 2 μm2 …

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 …

Gamma-rays from harmonically resonant betatron oscillations in a plasma wake

S Cipiccia, MR Islam, B Ersfeld, RP Shanks, E Brunetti… - Nature Physics, 2011‏ - nature.com
An intense laser pulse in a plasma can accelerate electrons,,, to GeV energies in
centimetres,,. Transverse betatron motion, in the plasma wake results in X-ray photons with …

Nonlinear Thomson scattering of intense laser pulses from beams and plasmas

E Esarey, SK Ride, P Sprangle - Physical Review E, 1993‏ - APS
A comprehensive theory is developed to describe the nonlinear Thomson scattering of
intense laser fields from beams and plasmas. This theory is valid for linearly or circularly …

Phenomenological theory of laser-plasma interaction in “bubble” regime

I Kostyukov, A Pukhov, S Kiselev - Physics of Plasmas, 2004‏ - pubs.aip.org
The electron trap** in the “bubble” regime of laser-plasma interaction as proposed by
Pukhov and Meyer-ter-Vehn [A. Pukhov and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, Appl. Phys. B 74, 355 …