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Title: Demonstration of acceleration of relativistic electrons at a dielectric microstructure using femtosecond laser pulses

Abstract

Acceleration of electrons using laser-driven dielectric microstructures is a promising technology for the miniaturization of particle accelerators. Achieving the desired GV m–1 accelerating gradients is possible only with laser pulse durations shorter than ~1 ps. In this Letter, we present, to the best of our knowledge, the first demonstration of acceleration of relativistic electrons at a dielectric microstructure driven by femtosecond duration laser pulses. Furthermore, using this technique, an electron accelerating gradient of 690±100 MV m–1 was measured—a record for dielectric laser accelerators.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [4];  [4];  [4];  [1]
  1. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  2. Tech-X Corp., Boulder, CO (United States)
  3. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Technion-Israel Inst. of Tech., Haifa (Israel)
  4. Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1313076
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1255321
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; AC02-76SF00515; FG02-13ER41970; SC0008920; ECS-9731293
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Optics Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 41; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 0146-9592
Publisher:
Optical Society of America (OSA)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; micro-optical devices; laser beam characterization; ultrafast optics; gratings

Citation Formats

Wootton, Kent P., Wu, Ziran, Cowan, Benjamin M., Hanuka, Adi, Makasyuk, Igor V., Peralta, Edgar A., Soong, Ken, Byer, Robert L., and England, R. Joel. Demonstration of acceleration of relativistic electrons at a dielectric microstructure using femtosecond laser pulses. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1364/OL.41.002696.
Wootton, Kent P., Wu, Ziran, Cowan, Benjamin M., Hanuka, Adi, Makasyuk, Igor V., Peralta, Edgar A., Soong, Ken, Byer, Robert L., & England, R. Joel. Demonstration of acceleration of relativistic electrons at a dielectric microstructure using femtosecond laser pulses. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.41.002696
Wootton, Kent P., Wu, Ziran, Cowan, Benjamin M., Hanuka, Adi, Makasyuk, Igor V., Peralta, Edgar A., Soong, Ken, Byer, Robert L., and England, R. Joel. Thu . "Demonstration of acceleration of relativistic electrons at a dielectric microstructure using femtosecond laser pulses". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.41.002696. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1313076.
@article{osti_1313076,
title = {Demonstration of acceleration of relativistic electrons at a dielectric microstructure using femtosecond laser pulses},
author = {Wootton, Kent P. and Wu, Ziran and Cowan, Benjamin M. and Hanuka, Adi and Makasyuk, Igor V. and Peralta, Edgar A. and Soong, Ken and Byer, Robert L. and England, R. Joel},
abstractNote = {Acceleration of electrons using laser-driven dielectric microstructures is a promising technology for the miniaturization of particle accelerators. Achieving the desired GV m–1 accelerating gradients is possible only with laser pulse durations shorter than ~1 ps. In this Letter, we present, to the best of our knowledge, the first demonstration of acceleration of relativistic electrons at a dielectric microstructure driven by femtosecond duration laser pulses. Furthermore, using this technique, an electron accelerating gradient of 690±100 MV m–1 was measured—a record for dielectric laser accelerators.},
doi = {10.1364/OL.41.002696},
journal = {Optics Letters},
number = 12,
volume = 41,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jun 02 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Thu Jun 02 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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