7 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…
A compact laser-plasma source for high-repetition-rate bi-modal X-ray and electron imaging
Angana Mondal, Ratul Sabui, Sonali Khanna +5
Bright sources of high-energy X-rays and electrons are indispensable tools in advanced imaging. Yet, current laser-driven systems typically support only single-modality imaging, re…
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…