Enhanced quantum radiation with flying-focus laser pulses
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| author | Formanek, Martin S. Palastro, John P. Ramsey, Dillon Di Piazza, Antonino |
| author_facet | Formanek, Martin S. Palastro, John P. Ramsey, Dillon Di Piazza, Antonino |
| contents | The emission of a photon by an electron in an intense laser field is one of the most fundamental processes in electrodynamics and underlies the many applications that utilize high-energy photon beams. This process is typically studied for electrons colliding head-on with a stationary-focus laser pulse. Here, we show that the energy lost by electrons in the quantum regime and the yield of emitted photons can be substantially increased by replacing a stationary-focus pulse with an equal-energy flying-focus pulse whose focus co-propagates with the electrons. These advantages of the flying focus result from the energy loss and the photon yield scaling more favorably with the interaction time than the laser intensity in the quantum regime, with the latter also holding in the classical regime. Monte Carlo simulations of electrons colliding with equal-energy stationary and flying-focus laser pulses demonstrate these advantages. |
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| spellingShingle | Enhanced quantum radiation with flying-focus laser pulses Formanek, Martin S. Palastro, John P. Ramsey, Dillon Di Piazza, Antonino High Energy Physics - Phenomenology The emission of a photon by an electron in an intense laser field is one of the most fundamental processes in electrodynamics and underlies the many applications that utilize high-energy photon beams. This process is typically studied for electrons colliding head-on with a stationary-focus laser pulse. Here, we show that the energy lost by electrons in the quantum regime and the yield of emitted photons can be substantially increased by replacing a stationary-focus pulse with an equal-energy flying-focus pulse whose focus co-propagates with the electrons. These advantages of the flying focus result from the energy loss and the photon yield scaling more favorably with the interaction time than the laser intensity in the quantum regime, with the latter also holding in the classical regime. Monte Carlo simulations of electrons colliding with equal-energy stationary and flying-focus laser pulses demonstrate these advantages. |
| title | Enhanced quantum radiation with flying-focus laser pulses |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08183 |