Radial density profile and stability of capillary discharge plasma waveguides of lengths up to 40 cm

Turner, M.; Gonsalves, A. J.; Bulanov, S. S.; Benedetti, C.; Bobrova, N. A.; Gasilov, V. A.; Sasorov, P. V.; Korn, G.; Nakamura, K.; van Tilborg, J.; Geddes, C. G.; Schroeder, C. B.; Esarey, E.

doi:10.1017/hpl.2021.6

Title: Radial density profile and stability of capillary discharge plasma waveguides of lengths up to 40 cm

Journal Article · 26 April 2021 · High Power Laser Science and Engineering

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2021.6 · OSTI ID:1813352

Turner, M. ^[1]; Gonsalves, A. J. ^[1]; Bulanov, S. S. ^[1]; Benedetti, C. ^[1]; Bobrova, N. A. ^[2]; Gasilov, V. A. ^[2]; Sasorov, P. V. ^[3]; Korn, G. ^[4]; Nakamura, K. ^[1]; van Tilborg, J. ^[1]; Geddes, C. G. ^[1]; Schroeder, C. B. ^[1]; Esarey, E. ^[1]

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Keldysh Inst. of Applied Mathematics RAS, Moscow (Russia)
Keldysh Inst. of Applied Mathematics RAS, Moscow (Russia); ELI Beamlines, Dolni Brezany (Czech Republic)
ELI Beamlines, Dolni Brezany (Czech Republic)

We measured the parameter reproducibility and radial electron density profile of capillary discharge waveguides with diameters of 650 μm to 2 mm and lengths of 9 to 40 cm. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, 40 cm is the longest discharge capillary plasma waveguide to date. This length is important for ≥10 GeV electron energy gain in a single laser-driven plasma wakefield acceleration stage. Evaluation of waveguide parameter variations showed that their focusing strength was stable and reproducible to <0.2% and their average on-axis plasma electron density to <1%. These variations explain only a small fraction of laser-driven plasma wakefield acceleration electron bunch variations observed in experiments to date. Measurements of laser pulse centroid oscillations revealed that the radial channel profile rises faster than parabolic and is in excellent agreement with magnetohydrodynamic simulation results. We show that the effects of non-parabolic contributions on Gaussian pulse propagation were negligible when the pulse was approximately matched to the channel. However, they affected pulse propagation for a non-matched configuration in which the waveguide was used as a plasma telescope to change the focused laser pulse spot size.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1813352

Journal Information:: High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Vol. 9; ISSN 2095-4719

Publisher:: Cambridge University PressCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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