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20072023
most citedDemonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams

82 citations · 351 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

physics.acc-ph2023

Pareto Optimization of a Laser Wakefield Accelerator

F. Irshad, C. Eberle, F. M. Foerster +6

Optimization of accelerator performance parameters is limited by numerous trade-offs and finding the appropriate balance between optimization goals for an unknown system is challen…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 8 cited

Applications of object detection networks at high-power laser systems and experiments

Jinpu Lin, Florian Haberstroh, Stefan Karsch +1

The recent advent of deep artificial neural networks has resulted in a dramatic increase in performance for object classification and detection. While pre-trained with everyday obj…

physics.acc-ph2022

Multi-objective and multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization of laser-plasma acceleration

Faran Irshad, Stefan Karsch, Andreas Döpp

Beam parameter optimization in accelerators involves multiple, sometimes competing objectives. Condensing these individual objectives into a single figure of merit unavoidably resu…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 34 cited

Stable and high quality electron beams from staged laser and plasma wakefield accelerators

F. M. Foerster, A. Döpp, F. Haberstroh +24

We present experimental results on a plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA) driven by high-current electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA). In this staged setup stabl…

physics.acc-ph2020★ 3 cited

Physics of Laser-Wakefield Accelerators (LWFA)

Johannes Wenz, Stefan Karsch

Intense ultrashort laser pulses propagating through an underdense plasma are able to drive relativistic plasma waves, creating accelerating structures with extreme gradients. These…

physics.acc-ph2019★ 82 cited

Demonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams

T. Kurz, T. Heinemann, M. F. Gilljohann +22

Plasma wakefield accelerators are capable of sustaining gigavolt-per-centimeter accelerating fields, surpassing the electric breakdown threshold in state-of-the-art accelerator mod…