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Optical Control Of Electron Phase Space In Plasma Accelerators With Incoherently Stacked Laser Pulses, Serge Y. Kalmykov, Xavier Davoine, Remi Lehe, Agustin F. Lifschitz, Bradley A. Shadwick
Optical Control Of Electron Phase Space In Plasma Accelerators With Incoherently Stacked Laser Pulses, Serge Y. Kalmykov, Xavier Davoine, Remi Lehe, Agustin F. Lifschitz, Bradley A. Shadwick
Serge Youri Kalmykov
It is demonstrated that synthesizing an ultrahigh-bandwidth, negatively chirped laser pulse by incoherently stacking pulses of different wavelengths makes it possible to optimize the process of electron self-injection in a dense, highly dispersive plasma (n_0 \sim 10^{19} cm^{-3}). Avoiding transformation of the driving pulse into a relativistic optical shock maintains a quasi-monoenergetic electron spectrum through electron dephasing and boosts electron energy far beyond the limits suggested by existing scaling laws. In addition, evolution of the accelerating bucket in a plasma channel is shown to produce a background-free, tunable train of femtosecond-duration, 35 - 100 kA, time-synchronized quasi-monoenergetic electron bunches. The …