Ultrafast Electron Diffraction with MeV Electron Source from a Laser Wakefield Accelerator
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| author | Fang, Yu Li, Fei Hua, Jianfei Guo, Bo Zhou, Linyi Zhou, Bing Chen, Zhihao Liu, Jianyi Zhou, Zheng Wu, Yipeng Du, Yingchao Li, Renkai Lu, Wei |
| author_facet | Fang, Yu Li, Fei Hua, Jianfei Guo, Bo Zhou, Linyi Zhou, Bing Chen, Zhihao Liu, Jianyi Zhou, Zheng Wu, Yipeng Du, Yingchao Li, Renkai Lu, Wei |
| contents | MeV ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) is a widely used technology for ultrafast structural dynamic studies of matters in numerous areas. The development of laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA) envisions great potential of advanced all-optical electron source based on LWFA in UED applications. We experimentally demonstrated that an LWFA-based device with a miniaturized permanent magnet beamline can generate and manipulate electron beams suitable for UED. In the beam transmission, the LWFA electron beams with intrinsic short duration stretch due to energy spread and then are compressed by a following double bend achromat. The optimized double bend achromat can make the beamline isochronous such that the arrival time jitter induced by the shot-to-shot energy fluctuation can be eliminated, and allow the advantage of the natural laser-beam synchronization for LWFAs to emerge. With the energy filtering, the beam energy spread can be reduced to 3% (FWHM) while a sufficient amount of charge (11.9 fC) per bunch for diffraction is retained. Start-to-end simulations showed that the bunch length reaches ~30 fs (rms) with the same experimental configuration. Clear single-shot and multi-shot diffraction patterns of single-crystalline gold samples are obtained and the derived lattice constant agrees excellently with the real value. Our proof-of-principle experiments open the door to the detection of ultrafast structural dynamics using MeV LWFA beams, and pave the way for the UED applications with sub-10-fs temporal resolution. |
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| spellingShingle | Ultrafast Electron Diffraction with MeV Electron Source from a Laser Wakefield Accelerator Fang, Yu Li, Fei Hua, Jianfei Guo, Bo Zhou, Linyi Zhou, Bing Chen, Zhihao Liu, Jianyi Zhou, Zheng Wu, Yipeng Du, Yingchao Li, Renkai Lu, Wei Accelerator Physics MeV ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) is a widely used technology for ultrafast structural dynamic studies of matters in numerous areas. The development of laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA) envisions great potential of advanced all-optical electron source based on LWFA in UED applications. We experimentally demonstrated that an LWFA-based device with a miniaturized permanent magnet beamline can generate and manipulate electron beams suitable for UED. In the beam transmission, the LWFA electron beams with intrinsic short duration stretch due to energy spread and then are compressed by a following double bend achromat. The optimized double bend achromat can make the beamline isochronous such that the arrival time jitter induced by the shot-to-shot energy fluctuation can be eliminated, and allow the advantage of the natural laser-beam synchronization for LWFAs to emerge. With the energy filtering, the beam energy spread can be reduced to 3% (FWHM) while a sufficient amount of charge (11.9 fC) per bunch for diffraction is retained. Start-to-end simulations showed that the bunch length reaches ~30 fs (rms) with the same experimental configuration. Clear single-shot and multi-shot diffraction patterns of single-crystalline gold samples are obtained and the derived lattice constant agrees excellently with the real value. Our proof-of-principle experiments open the door to the detection of ultrafast structural dynamics using MeV LWFA beams, and pave the way for the UED applications with sub-10-fs temporal resolution. |
| title | Ultrafast Electron Diffraction with MeV Electron Source from a Laser Wakefield Accelerator |
| topic | Accelerator Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.12093 |