A review of recent progress on laser-plasma acceleration at kHz repetition rate

J Faure, D Gustas, D Guénot, A Vernier… - Plasma Physics and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on recent progress on laser-plasma acceleration using a low energy and high-
repetition rate laser system. Using only few milliJoule laser energy, in conjunction with …

MeV-Energy X Rays from Inverse Compton Scattering with Laser-Wakefield<? format?> Accelerated Electrons

S Chen, ND Powers, I Ghebregziabher, CM Maharjan… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
We report the generation of MeV x rays using an undulator and accelerator that are both
driven by the same 100-terawatt laser system. The laser pulse driving the accelerator and …

Density-transition based electron injector for laser driven wakefield accelerators

K Schmid, A Buck, CMS Sears, JM Mikhailova… - Physical Review Special …, 2010 - APS
We demonstrate a laser wakefield accelerator with a novel electron injection scheme
resulting in enhanced stability, reproducibility, and ease of use. In order to inject electrons …

Physics of high-charge electron beams in laser-plasma wakefields

J Götzfried, A Döpp, MF Gilljohann, FM Foerster… - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
Laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) and its particle-driven counterpart, particle or plasma
wakefield acceleration (PWFA), are commonly treated as separate, though related, branches …

Relativistic-intensity near-single-cycle light waveforms at kHz repetition rate

M Ouillé, A Vernier, F Böhle, M Bocoum… - Light: Science & …, 2020 - nature.com
The development of ultra-intense and ultra-short light sources is currently a subject of
intense research driven by the discovery of novel phenomena in the realm of relativistic …

Real-time observation of laser-driven electron acceleration

A Buck, M Nicolai, K Schmid, CMS Sears, A Sävert… - Nature Physics, 2011 - nature.com
Electron acceleration by laser-driven plasma waves, is capableof producing ultra-relativistic,
quasi-monoenergetic electron bunches,, with orders of magnitude higher accelerating …

Generation of sub-three-cycle, 16 TW light pulses by using noncollinear optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification

D Herrmann, L Veisz, R Tautz, F Tavella, K Schmid… - Optics letters, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We present a two-stage noncollinear optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification system
that generates 7.9 fs pulses containing 130 mJ of energy at an 805 nm central wavelength …

Ultrafast optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification

S Witte, KSE Eikema - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) has emerged as a
powerful tool for the generation of ultrashort pulses with extreme peak intensity. It has …

Octave-spanning OPCPA system delivering CEP-stable few-cycle pulses and 22 W of average power at 1 MHz repetition rate

J Rothhardt, S Demmler, S Hädrich, J Limpert… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We report on an OPCPA system delivering CEP-stable pulses with a pulse duration of only
1.7 optical cycles at 880 nm wavelength. This pulse duration is achieved by the generation …

Single-cycle optical control of beam electrons

Y Morimoto, P Baum - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We report the single-cycle optical control of a freely propagating electron beam with an
isolated cycle of midinfrared light. In particular, we produce and characterize a modulated …