A Platform for All-optical Thomson/ Compton Scattering with Versatile Parameters

Abstract

A dual-beam platform for all-optical electron-photon scattering, or Thomson/Compton scattering, with adjustable collision-angle and parameter tuning ability has been developed, which, in principle, can be used for the verification of strong-field quantum electrodynamics effects. Combining this platform with a 200 TW Ti:Sapphire laser system, we demonstrated the generation of inverse Compton scattering X/gamma-rays with tunable energies from tens of keV to MeV. The polarization of X/gamma radiation was manipulated by controlling the polarization of scattering laser. In the near future, by combining this experimental platform with multi-PW laser facilities, it is proposed to experimentally generate X/gamma radiation with orbital angular momentum for the nuclear isomer excitation, and more importantly, to explore the regime transition from nonlinear Thomson scattering to nonlinear Compton scattering, eventually to demonstrate the verification of theories on extremely strong field quantum electrodynamics effects.

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• Extremely high-intensity laser interactions with fundamental quantum systems
• All-optical Compton gamma-ray source
• Charged particle motion and radiation in strong electromagnetic fields
• Ultra-high brilliance multi-MeV $\gamma$-ray beam from non-linear Thomson scattering
• Quantum radiation reaction effects in multiphoton Compton scattering
• An extended locally constant field approximation for nonlinear Compton scattering
• Electromagnetic cascade in high energy electron, positron, and photon interactions with intense laser pulses
• Improved local-constant-field approximation for strong-field QED codes
• High-energy behavior of strong-field QED in an intense plane wave
• The locally monochromatic approximation to QED in intense laser fields
• Compact tunable Compton x-ray source from laser-plasma accelerator and plasma mirror
• Gamma-ray beams with large orbital angular momentum via nonlinear Compton scattering with radiation reaction
• Dual-energy electron beams from a compact laser-driven accelerator
• Disentangling X-ray dichroism and birefringence via high-purity polarimetry
• An all-optical Compton source for single-exposure X-ray imaging
• Nuclear Excitation by a Zeptosecond Multi--MeV Laser Pulse
• Vortex $\gamma$ photon generation via spin-to-orbital angular momentum transfer in nonlinear Compton scattering
• High-order corrections to the radiation-free dynamics of an electron in the strongly radiation-dominated regime