Effect of different Gaussian-like laser profiles on electron energy gain in laser wakefield acceleration

V Sharma, N Kant, V Thakur - Optical and Quantum Electronics, 2024 - Springer
Laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) of electrons is a highly promising and advanced
technique within the field of laser plasma physics, which enables the generation of …

Optimizing laser-driven electron acceleration with sinh-squared Gaussian pulses

V Sharma, N Kant, V Thakur - Journal of Optics, 2024 - Springer
To obtain energy-efficient electron acceleration, several Gaussian pulse profiles like Bessel-
Gaussian, super-Gaussian, and cosine-Gaussian are studied analytically. In this series, we …

Enhanced Yb: YAG active mirrors for high power laser amplifiers

VA Petrov, GV Kuptsov, AO Kuptsova, VV Atuchin… - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The work is aimed at the investigation of the influence of nonlinear active ions concentration
profiles in Yb: YAG laser elements on temperature distribution and wavefront distortions …

Dielectric Laser Accelerators Driven by Ultrashort, Ultraintense Long-Wave Infrared Lasers

X Mei, R Zha, Y Pan, S Wang, B Sun, C Lei, C Ke… - Ultrafast …, 2023 - spj.science.org
Particle acceleration driven by intense lasers has long been a frontier of research in the field
of laser engineering physics due to its extremely high acceleration gradient. Recently …

Strong-field vacuum polarisation with high energy lasers

AJ Macleod, JP Edwards, T Heinzl, B King… - New Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
When photons propagate in vacuum they may fluctuate into matter pairs thus allowing the
vacuum to be polarised. This linear effect leads to charge screening and renormalisation …

Investigation of the Way of Phase Synchronization of a Self-Injected Bunch and an Accelerating Wakefield in Solid-State Plasma

VI Maslov, DS Bondar, IN Onishchenko - Photonics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The electron acceleration, in a laser wakefield accelerator, controlled through plasma
density inhomogeneity is studied on a basis of 2.5-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation …

Control systems and data management for high-power laser facilities

S Feister, K Cassou, S Dann, A Döpp… - High Power Laser …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The next generation of high-power lasers enables repetition of experiments at orders of
magnitude higher frequency than what was possible using the prior generation. Facilities …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of electron transport models on capillary discharge plasmas

A Diaw, SJ Coleman, NM Cook, JP Edelen… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) can be used to model capillary discharge waveguides in
laser-wakefield accelerators. However, the predictive capability of MHD can suffer due to …

Generation of terahertz radiation by a Hermite–Gaussian laser beam inside magnetoplasma with a density ramp

P Kad, V Rana, A Singh - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2023 - cambridge.org
In the present scheme of work, the Hermite–Gaussian (HG) laser beam dynamics has been
investigated under the influence of an upward density ramp inside magnetized plasma …

[HTML][HTML] Simulation Study on Attosecond Inverse Compton Scattering Source from Laser Wakefield Acceleration with Near-Threshold Ionization Injection

A Deng, Y Li, Y Weng, Z Luo, X Yu, J Zeng - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
We present the generation of attosecond gamma rays via inverse Compton scattering within
the framework of laser wakefield acceleration through 2D Particle-In-Cell simulations …