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9.8-GW tabletop attosecond light source
Lihui Meng, Lu Xu, Xusheng Zhu +4
The generation of attosecond pulses has enabled real-time observation and manipulation of coherent electron dynamics, yet their low peak power has hindered the development of advan…
Bidirectional cascaded superfluorescent lasing in air enabled by resonant third harmonic photon exchange from nitrogen to argon
Zan Nie, Noa Nambu, Kenneth A. Marsh +10
Cavity-free lasing in atmospheric air has stimulated intense research towards fundamental understanding of underlying physical mechanisms. In this Letter, we identify a new mechani…
Correlations between X-rays, Visible Light and Drive-Beam Energy Loss Observed in Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiments at FACET-II
Chaojie Zhang, Doug Storey, Pablo San Miguel Claveria +26
This study documents several correlations observed during the first run of the plasma wakefield acceleration experiment E300 conducted at FACET-II, using a single drive electron bu…
Efficient generation of intense spatial and spatiotemporal vortex harmonics using plasma mirrors
Yipeng Wu, Zan Nie, Fei Li +4
Intense spatial or spatiotemporal vortex pulses from the extreme ultraviolet to soft X-ray spectral windows are expected to provide new degrees of freedom for a variety of key appl…
Efficient generation and amplification of intense vortex and vector laser pulses via strongly coupled stimulated Brillouin scattering in plasmas
Yipeng Wu, Chaojie Zhang, Zan Nie +7
The past decade has seen tremendous progress in the production and utilization of vortex and vector laser pulses. Although both are considered as structured light beams, the vortex…
Wakefield Generation in Hydrogen and Lithium Plasmas at FACET-II: Diagnostics and First Beam-Plasma Interaction Results
D. Storey, C. Zhang, P. San Miguel Claveria +28
Plasma Wakefield Acceleration (PWFA) provides ultrahigh acceleration gradients of 10s of GeV/m, providing a novel path towards efficient, compact, TeV-scale linear colliders and hi…
Generation of meter-scale hydrogen plasmas and efficient, pump-depletion-limited wakefield excitation using 10 GeV electron bunches
C. Zhang, D. Storey, P. San Miguel Claveria +26
High repetition rates and efficient energy transfer to the accelerating beam are important for a future linear collider based on the beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration schem…
Probing strong-field QED in beam-plasma collisions
A. Matheron, P. San Miguel Claveria, R. Ariniello +21
Ongoing progress in laser and accelerator technology opens new possibilities in high-field science, notably to investigate the largely unexplored strong-field quantum electrodynami…
Highly spin-polarized multi-GeV electron beams generated by single-species plasma photocathodes
Zan Nie, Fei Li, Felipe Morales +11
High-gradient and high-efficiency acceleration in plasma-based accelerators has been demonstrated, showing its potential as the building block for a future collider operating at th…
Efficient Generation of Tunable Magnetic and Optical Vortices Using Plasmas
Yipeng Wu, Xinlu Xu, Chaojie Zhang +8
Plasma is an attractive medium for generating strong microscopic magnetic structures and tunable electromagnetic radiation with predictable topologies due to its extraordinary abil…
Ionization induced plasma grating and its applications in strong-field ionization measurements
Chaojie Zhang, Zan Nie, Yipeng Wu +4
An ionization-induced plasma grating can be formed by spatially selective ionization of gases by the interference of two intersecting ultra-short laser pulses. The density modulati…
Spatiotemporal dynamics of ultrarelativistic beam-plasma instabilities
P. San Miguel Claveria, X. Davoine, J. R. Peterson +28
An electron or electron-positron beam streaming through a plasma is notoriously prone to micro-instabilities. For a dilute ultrarelativistic infinite beam, the dominant instability…
In Situ Generation of High-Energy Spin-Polarized Electrons in a Beam-Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerator
Zan Nie, Fei Li, Felipe Morales +9
In situ generation of a high-energy, high-current, spin-polarized electron beam is an outstanding scientific challenge to the development of plasma-based accelerators for high-ener…
Ultra-short pulse generation from mid-IR to THz range using plasma wakes and relativistic ionization fronts
Zan Nie, Yipeng Wu, Chaojie Zhang +6
This paper discusses numerical and experimental results on frequency downshifting and upshifting of a 10 m infrared laser to cover the entire wavelength (frequency) range from $…
Conservation of angular momentum in second harmonic generation from under-dense plasmas
C. K. Huang, C. J. Zhang, Z. Nie +3
Spin and orbital angular momentum of an optical beam are two independent parameters that exhibit distinct effects on mechanical objects. However, when laser beams with angular mome…
Extremely Dense Gamma-Ray Pulses in Electron Beam-Multifoil Collisions
Archana Sampath, Xavier Davoine, Sébastien Corde +26
Sources of high-energy photons have important applications in almost all areas of research. However, the photon flux and intensity of existing sources is strongly limited for photo…
High-throughput injection-acceleration of electron bunches from a linear accelerator to a laser wakefield accelerator
Yipeng Wu, Jianfei Hua, Zheng Zhou +13
Plasma-based accelerators (PBAs) driven by either intense lasers (laser wakefield accelerators, LWFAs) or particle beams (plasma wakefield accelerators, PWFAs), can accelerate char…
Phase space dynamics of a plasma wakefield dechirper for energy spread reduction
Y. P. Wu, J. F. Hua, Z. Zhou +12
Plasma-based accelerators have made impressive progress in recent years. However, the beam energy spread obtained in these accelerators is still at ~ 1 % level, nearly one order of…
A near-ideal dechirper for plasma-based electron and positron acceleration using a hollow channel plasma
Y. P. Wu, J. F. Hua, C. H. Pai +15
Plasma-based electron and positron wakefield acceleration has made great strides in the past decade. However one major challenge for its applications to coherent light sources and…
Temporal diagnostics of femtosecond electron bunches with complex structures using sparsity-based algorithm
Q. Q. Su, J. F. Hua, Z. Nie +5
Femtosecond electron bunches with complex temporal structures play a crucial role in THz generation, free-electron lasers and plasma wakefield accelerators. The ultrashort electron…
Relativistic, single-cycle tunable-infrared pulses generated by a tailored plasma density structure
Zan Nie, Chih-Hao Pai, Jianfei Hua +16
The availability of intense, ultrashort coherent radiation sources in the infrared region of the spectrum is enabling the generation of attosecond X-ray pulses via high harmonic ge…