Universal scalings for laser acceleration of electrons in ion channels
Abstract
Here, we analytically investigate the acceleration of electrons undergoing betatron oscillations in an ion channel, driven by a laser beam propagating with superluminal (or luminal) phase velocity. The universal scalings for the maximum attainable electron energy are found for arbitrary laser and plasma parameters by deriving a set of dimensionless equations for paraxial ultra-relativistic electron motion. One of our analytic predictions is the emergence of forbidden zones in the electrons' phase space. For an individual electron, these give rise to a threshold-type dependence of the final energy gain on the laser intensity. The universal scalings are also generalized to the resonant laser interaction with the third harmonic of betatron motion and to the case when the laser beam is circularly polarized.
- Authors:
-
[1];
[2];
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States). Inst. for Fusion Studies and Dept. of Physics
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States). Center for High Energy Density Science
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States). Inst. for Fusion Studies and Dept. of Physics; Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States). School of Applied and Engineering Physics
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1465155
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1329487
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0007889; SC0010622; FA9550-14-1-0045; NA0002723; NA0002008; FG02-04ER54742
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physics of Plasmas
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 23; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; kinematics; laser beams; betatrons; plasma channeling; equations of motion; Doppler effect; ion channels; electron beams; plasma waves; electric fields
Citation Formats
Khudik, Vladimir, Arefiev, Alexey, Zhang, Xi, and Shvets, Gennady. Universal scalings for laser acceleration of electrons in ion channels. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4964901.
Khudik, Vladimir, Arefiev, Alexey, Zhang, Xi, & Shvets, Gennady. Universal scalings for laser acceleration of electrons in ion channels. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4964901
Khudik, Vladimir, Arefiev, Alexey, Zhang, Xi, and Shvets, Gennady. Thu .
"Universal scalings for laser acceleration of electrons in ion channels". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4964901. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1465155.
@article{osti_1465155,
title = {Universal scalings for laser acceleration of electrons in ion channels},
author = {Khudik, Vladimir and Arefiev, Alexey and Zhang, Xi and Shvets, Gennady},
abstractNote = {Here, we analytically investigate the acceleration of electrons undergoing betatron oscillations in an ion channel, driven by a laser beam propagating with superluminal (or luminal) phase velocity. The universal scalings for the maximum attainable electron energy are found for arbitrary laser and plasma parameters by deriving a set of dimensionless equations for paraxial ultra-relativistic electron motion. One of our analytic predictions is the emergence of forbidden zones in the electrons' phase space. For an individual electron, these give rise to a threshold-type dependence of the final energy gain on the laser intensity. The universal scalings are also generalized to the resonant laser interaction with the third harmonic of betatron motion and to the case when the laser beam is circularly polarized.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4964901},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
number = 10,
volume = 23,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Oct 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Thu Oct 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record
Other availability
Search WorldCat to find libraries that may hold this journal
Cited by: 35 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science
Web of Science
Save to My Library
You must Sign In or Create an Account in order to save documents to your library.
Works referenced in this record:
Role of direct laser acceleration in energy gained by electrons in a laser wakefield accelerator with ionization injection
journal, July 2014
- Shaw, J. L.; Tsung, F. S.; Vafaei-Najafabadi, N.
- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol. 56, Issue 8
Low emittance electron beam generation from a laser wakefield accelerator using two laser pulses with different wavelengths
journal, June 2014
- Xu, X. L.; Wu, Y. P.; Zhang, C. J.
- Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams, Vol. 17, Issue 6
Controlled Betatron X-Ray Radiation from Tunable Optically Injected Electrons
journal, December 2011
- Corde, S.; Phuoc, K. Ta; Fitour, R.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 107, Issue 25
Thermal emittance from ionization-induced trapping in plasma accelerators
journal, October 2014
- Schroeder, C. B.; Vay, J. -L.; Esarey, E.
- Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams, Vol. 17, Issue 10
Ponderomotive Laser Acceleration and Focusing in Vacuum for Generation of Attosecond Electron Bunches
journal, June 2001
- Stupakov, G. V.; Zolotorev, M. S.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 86, Issue 23
Bright X-Ray Source from a Laser-Driven Microplasma Waveguide
journal, March 2016
- Yi, Longqing; Pukhov, Alexander; Luu-Thanh, Phuc
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 116, Issue 11
Electron Acceleration in Cavitated Channels Formed by a Petawatt Laser in Low-Density Plasma
journal, June 2005
- Mangles, S. P. D.; Walton, B. R.; Tzoufras, M.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 94, Issue 24
Particle acceleration in relativistic laser channels
journal, July 1999
- Pukhov, A.; Sheng, Z. -M.; Meyer-ter-Vehn, J.
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 6, Issue 7
Laser wakefield and direct acceleration with ionization injection
journal, February 2016
- Zhang, Xi; Khudik, Vladimir N.; Pukhov, Alexander
- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol. 58, Issue 3
Quasi-monoenergetic laser-plasma acceleration of electrons to 2 GeV
journal, June 2013
- Wang, Xiaoming; Zgadzaj, Rafal; Fazel, Neil
- Nature Communications, Vol. 4, Issue 1
Laser wake field acceleration: the highly non-linear broken-wave regime
journal, April 2002
- Pukhov, A.; Meyer-ter-Vehn, J.
- Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, Vol. 74, Issue 4-5
Enhancement of Electron Energy to the Multi-GeV Regime by a Dual-Stage Laser-Wakefield Accelerator Pumped by Petawatt Laser Pulses
journal, October 2013
- Kim, Hyung Taek; Pae, Ki Hong; Cha, Hyuk Jin
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 111, Issue 16
Resonant interaction between laser and electrons undergoing betatron oscillations in the bubble regime
journal, July 2015
- Curcio, Alessandro; Giulietti, Danilo; Dattoli, Giuseppe
- Journal of Plasma Physics, Vol. 81, Issue 5
The effect of superluminal phase velocity on electron acceleration in a powerful electromagnetic wave
journal, August 2015
- Robinson, A. P. L.; Arefiev, A. V.; Khudik, V. N.
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 22, Issue 8
Synergistic Laser-Wakefield and Direct-Laser Acceleration in the Plasma-Bubble Regime
journal, May 2015
- Zhang, Xi; Khudik, Vladimir N.; Shvets, Gennady
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 114, Issue 18
Ultrashort Pulsed Neutron Source
journal, October 2014
- Pomerantz, I.; McCary, E.; Meadows, A. R.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 113, Issue 18
Enhancement of laser-driven electron acceleration in an ion channel
journal, March 2014
- Arefiev, Alexey V.; Khudik, Vladimir N.; Schollmeier, Marius
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 21, Issue 3
Gamma-rays from harmonically resonant betatron oscillations in a plasma wake
journal, September 2011
- Cipiccia, Silvia; Islam, Mohammad R.; Ersfeld, Bernhard
- Nature Physics, Vol. 7, Issue 11
The scaling of electron and positron generation in intense laser-solid interactionsa)
journal, May 2015
- Chen, Hui; Link, A.; Sentoku, Y.
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 22, Issue 5
GeV electron beams from a centimetre-scale accelerator
journal, September 2006
- Leemans, W. P.; Nagler, B.; Gonsalves, A. J.
- Nature Physics, Vol. 2, Issue 10
Parametric Amplification of Laser-Driven Electron Acceleration in Underdense Plasma
journal, April 2012
- Arefiev, Alexey V.; Breizman, Boris N.; Schollmeier, Marius
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 108, Issue 14
Controlling the betatron oscillations of a wakefield-accelerated electron beam by temporally asymmetric laser pulses
journal, April 2011
- Nam, Inhyuk; Hur, Min Sup; Uhm, Han Sup
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 18, Issue 4
Laser-to-hot-electron conversion limitations in relativistic laser matter interactions due to multi-picosecond dynamics
journal, April 2015
- Schollmeier, M.; Sefkow, A. B.; Geissel, M.
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 22, Issue 4
High-energy Kα radiography using high-intensity, short-pulse lasers
journal, May 2006
- Park, H. -S.; Chambers, D. M.; Chung, H. -K.
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 13, Issue 5
Generation of Superponderomotive Electrons in Multipicosecond Interactions of Kilojoule Laser Beams with Solid-Density Plasmas
journal, April 2016
- Sorokovikova, A.; Arefiev, A. V.; McGuffey, C.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 116, Issue 15
Phenomenological theory of laser-plasma interaction in “bubble” regime
journal, November 2004
- Kostyukov, I.; Pukhov, A.; Kiselev, S.
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 11, Issue 11
Enhanced Multi-MeV Photon Emission by a Laser-Driven Electron Beam in a Self-Generated Magnetic Field
journal, May 2016
- Stark, D. J.; Toncian, T.; Arefiev, A. V.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 116, Issue 18
Observation of Synchrotron Radiation from Electrons Accelerated in a Petawatt-Laser-Generated Plasma Cavity
journal, March 2008
- Kneip, S.; Nagel, S. R.; Bellei, C.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 100, Issue 10
Towards manipulating relativistic laser pulses with micro-tube plasma lenses
journal, March 2016
- Ji, L. L.; Snyder, J.; Pukhov, A.
- Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, Issue 1
Spontaneous emergence of non-planar electron orbits during direct laser acceleration by a linearly polarized laser pulse
journal, February 2016
- Arefiev, A. V.; Khudik, V. N.; Robinson, A. P. L.
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 23, Issue 2
Electromagnetic instability of the ion‐focused regime
journal, March 1992
- Whittum, David H.
- Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics, Vol. 4, Issue 3
Measurement of the Initial Condition of Electrons Ionized by a Linearly Polarized, High-Intensity Laser
journal, January 1997
- McNaught, S. J.; Knauer, J. P.; Meyerhofer, D. D.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 78, Issue 4
Direct laser acceleration of electrons in plasma bubbles or ion channels with and without a longitudinal wakefield
conference, January 2017
- Khudik, Vladimir; Zhang, Xi; Arefiev, Alexey
- ADVANCED ACCELERATOR CONCEPTS: 17th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, AIP Conference Proceedings
Controlled Betatron X-Ray Radiation from Tunable Optically Injected Electrons
text, January 2011
- Corde, S.; Phuoc, K. Ta; Fitour, R.
- arXiv
Enhancement of laser-driven electron acceleration in an ion channel
text, January 2013
- Arefiev, Alexey V.; Khudik, Vladimir N.; Schollmeier, Marius
- arXiv
Low emittance electron beam generation from a laser wakefield accelerator using two laser pulses with different wavelengths
text, January 2014
- Xu, X. L.; Wu, Y. P.; Zhang, C. J.
- arXiv
Role of direct laser acceleration in energy gained by electrons in a laser wakefield accelerator with ionization injection
text, January 2014
- Shaw, J. L.; Tsung, F. S.; Vafaei-Najafabadi, N.
- arXiv
Spontaneous emergence of non-planar electron orbits during direct laser acceleration by a linearly polarized laser pulse
text, January 2015
- Arefiev, A. V.; Khudik, V. N.; Robinson, A. P. L.
- arXiv
Enhancement of laser-driven electron acceleration in an ion channel
journal, March 2014
- Arefiev, Alexey V.; Khudik, Vladimir N.; Schollmeier, Marius
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 21, Issue 3
Ponderomotive Laser Acceleration and Focusing in Vacuum for Generation of Attosecond Electron Bunches
text, January 2001
- Stupakov, G. V.; Zolotorev, M. S.
- The American Physical Society
Beam quality requirements for the Ion-Channel Laser
preprint, January 2014
- Davoine, X.; Fiúza, F.; Fonseca, R. A.
- arXiv
Synergistic Laser Wakefield/Direct Laser Acceleration in the Plasma Bubble Regime
text, January 2014
- Zhang, Xi; Khudik, Vladimir N.; Shvets, Gennady
- arXiv
Works referencing / citing this record:
Radiation reaction as an energy enhancement mechanism for laser-irradiated electrons in a strong plasma magnetic field
journal, November 2019
- Gong, Z.; Mackenroth, F.; Yan, X. Q.
- Scientific Reports, Vol. 9, Issue 1
Nonlinear parametric resonance of relativistic electrons with a linearly polarized laser pulse in a plasma channel
journal, April 2017
- Huang, T. W.; Zhou, C. T.; Robinson, A. P. L.
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 24, Issue 4
Electron heating in the laser and static electric and magnetic fields
journal, January 2018
- Zhang, Yanzeng; Krasheninnikov, S. I.
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 25, Issue 1
Interaction of an electron with coherent dipole radiation: Role of convergence and anti-dephasing
journal, May 2018
- Robinson, A. P. L.; Arefiev, A. V.
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 25, Issue 5
Far-field constant-gradient laser accelerator of electrons in an ion channel
journal, August 2018
- Khudik, Vladimir N.; Zhang, Xi; Wang, Tianhong
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 25, Issue 8
Stochastic electron heating in the laser and quasi-static electric and magnetic fields
journal, December 2018
- Zhang, Yanzeng; Krasheninnikov, S. I.; Knyazev, Alexey
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 25, Issue 12
Direct laser acceleration of electrons in the plasma bubble by tightly focused laser pulses
journal, August 2019
- Wang, Tianhong; Khudik, Vladimir; Arefiev, Alexey
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 26, Issue 8
Extremely intense laser-based electron acceleration in a plasma channel
journal, January 2018
- Vranic, Marija; Fonseca, Ricardo A.; Silva, Luis O.
- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol. 60, Issue 3
Effects of laser polarization and wavelength on hybrid laser wakefield and direct acceleration
journal, August 2018
- Zhang, Xi; Wang, T.; Khudik, V. N.
- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol. 60, Issue 10
Highly collimated electron acceleration by longitudinal laser fields in a hollow-core target
journal, February 2019
- Gong, Z.; Robinson, A. P. L.; Yan, X. Q.
- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol. 61, Issue 3
Electron dynamics in laser and quasi-static transverse electric and longitudinal magnetic fields
journal, June 2019
- Zhang, Yanzeng; Krasheninnikov, S. I.
- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol. 61, Issue 7
The unexpected role of evolving longitudinal electric fields in generating energetic electrons in relativistically transparent plasmas
journal, September 2018
- Willingale, L.; Arefiev, A. V.; Williams, G. J.
- New Journal of Physics, Vol. 20, Issue 9
The Unexpected Role of Evolving Longitudinal Electric Fields in Generating Energetic Electrons in Relativistically Transparent Plasmas
text, January 2018
- Willingale, L.; Arefiev, A. V.; Williams, G. J.
- arXiv
Electron dynamics in laser and quasi-static transverse electric and longitudinal magnetic fields
text, January 2018
- Zhang, Yanzeng; Krasheninnikov, Sergei
- arXiv
Stochastic electron heating in the laser and quasi-static electric and magnetic fields
preprint, January 2018
- Zhang, Yanzeng; Krasheninnikov, S. I.; Knyazev, Alexey
- arXiv
Radiation reaction as an energy enhancement mechanism for laser-irradiated electrons in a strong plasma magnetic field
journal, November 2019
- Gong, Z.; Mackenroth, F.; Yan, X. Q.
- Scientific Reports, Vol. 9, Issue 1
Laser-pulse and electron-bunch plasma wakefield accelerator
journal, November 2020
- Wang, Tianhong; Khudik, Vladimir; Shvets, Gennady
- Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, Vol. 23, Issue 11
Direct laser acceleration of electrons by tightly focused laser pulses
text, January 2018
- Wang, Tianhong; Khudik, Vladimir; Arefiev, Alexey
- arXiv
WAND-PIC: an accelerated three-dimensional quasi-static particle-in-cell code
preprint, January 2020
- Wang, Tianhong; Khudik, Vladimir; Kim, Jihoon
- arXiv