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20222026
most citedUse of spatiotemporal couplings and an axiparabola to control axial energy deposition velocity

20 citations · 49 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

physics.plasm-ph2026

Electron Rephasing in a Truncated Tunable Plasma Channel

Arujash Mohanty, Santhosh Krishnamurthy, Yinren Shou +6

We report the acceleration of stable electron beams with energies up to 1.5 GeV using a 50 TW laser pulse guided in a preformed plasma channel generated by an axiparabola-focused h…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Direct observation of electron shedding from a laser-plasma accelerator

Sheroy Tata, Salome Benracassa, Heychal Davidovich +6

Laser-plasma accelerators have demonstrated the ability to produce ultrashort relativistic electron bunches with peak currents suitable for compact light sources, ultrafast diffrac…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Plasma wakefield dynamics of self-generated electron bunch trains

Salome Benracassa, Sheroy Tata, Yinren shou +2

Laser plasma accelerators can deliver high-energy, quasi-monoenergetic electron beams over centimeter-scale distances. In this work, we report on the generation of narrow, quasi-mo…

physics.acc-ph2026

Electron Acceleration in a Flying-Focus Laser Wakefield Accelerator

Aaron Liberman, Anton Golovanov, Slava Smartsev +3

Structured light pulses hold significant promise for their ability to overcome dephasing in laser-wakefield accelerators, that should facilitate applications in high-energy physics…

physics.optics2026

Enhanced dynamic range spatio-spectral metrology of few-cycle laser pulses

Cristian Alexe, Aaron Liberman, Saga Westerberg +13

Accurate spatio-temporal and spatio-spectral metrology is critical to the characterization and use of ultra-short, high-power lasers. The emergence of few cycle pulses, with bandwi…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Probing Flying-Focus Wakefields

Aaron Liberman, Anton Golovanov, Sheroy Tata +2

Flying-focus wakefields, which can propagate with a tunable velocity along the optical axis, are promising solutions to electron dephasing in laser-wakefield accelerators. This is…

physics.acc-ph2025★ 1 cited

First Electron Acceleration in a Tunable-Velocity Laser Wakefield

Aaron Liberman, Anton Golovanov, Slava Smartsev +3

We present the first experimental confirmation that a laser-wakefield accelerator produced by a flying focus pulse is able to maintain the coherent structures necessary to accelera…

hep-ex2025

Input to the ESPPU: The LUXE Experiment

H. Abramowicz, M. Almanza Soto, M. Altarelli +130

This document presents an overview of LUXE (Laser Und XFEL Experiment), an experiment that will combine the high-quality and high-energy electron beam of the European XFEL with a h…

physics.acc-ph2025★ 7 cited

First direct observation of a wakefield generated with structured light

Aaron Liberman, Anton Golovanov, Slava Smartsev +6

The use of structured light to control the phase velocity of the wake in laser-wakefield accelerators has generated significant interest for its ability to mitigate electron dephas…

hep-ex2023

Technical Design Report for the LUXE Experiment

H. Abramowicz, M. Almanza Soto, M. Altarelli +131

This Technical Design Report presents a detailed description of all aspects of the LUXE (Laser Und XFEL Experiment), an experiment that will combine the high-quality and high-energ…

physics.optics2023★ 10 cited

Simple few-shot method for spectrally resolving the wavefront of an ultrashort laser pulse

Slava Smartsev, Aaron Liberman, Igor A. Andriyash +10

We present a novel and straightforward approach for the spatio-spectral characterization of ultrashort pulses. This minimally intrusive method relies on placing a mask with special…

physics.optics2023★ 20 cited

Use of spatiotemporal couplings and an axiparabola to control axial energy deposition velocity

Aaron Liberman, Ronan Lahaye, Slava Smartsev +5

This paper presents the first experimental realization of a scheme that allows for the tuning of the axial energy deposition velocity of a focal spot with relativistic intensity. B…

physics.optics2022★ 11 cited

Spatiotemporal pulse characterization with far-field beamlet cross-correlation

Slava Smartsev, Sheroy Tata, Aaron Liberman +9

We present a novel, straightforward method for spatiotemporal characterization of ultra-short laser pulses. The method employs far-field interferometry and inverse Fourier transfor…