Laser-driven plasma-based accelerators: Wakefield excitation, channel guiding, and laser triggered particle injection

Journal Article · Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1998 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.872820· OSTI ID:627763

Leemans, W P; Volfbeyn, P; Guo, K Z; Chattopadhyay, S ^[1]; Schroeder, C B; Shadwick, B A; Lee, P B; Wurtele, J S ^[2]; Esarey, E ^[3]

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1. Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
2. University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California94720 (United States)
3. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC20375-5320 (United States)

Plasma-based accelerators are discussed in which high-power short pulse lasers are the power source, suitably tailored plasma structures provide guiding of the laser beam and support large accelerating gradients, and an optical scheme is used to produce time-synchronized ultrashort electron bunches. From scaling laws laser requirements are obtained for development of compact high-energy accelerators. Simulation results of laser guiding and wakefield excitation in plasma channels, as well as laser-based injection of particles into a plasma wake, are presented. Details of the experimental program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on laser guiding, laser wakefield-based accelerators, and laser triggered injection are given.

• OSTI ID: 627763
• Report Number(s): CONF-971103-; ISSN 1070-664X; TRN: 98:006115
• Journal Information: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 5, Issue 5; Conference: 39. annual meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA (United States), 17-21 Nov 1997; Other Information: PBD: May 1998
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION
BEAM-PLASMA SYSTEMS
EXCITATION
WAKEFIELD ACCELERATORS
LASER-PRODUCED PLASMA