Electron Acceleration in a Flying-Focus Laser Wakefield Accelerator
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| author | Liberman, Aaron Golovanov, Anton Smartsev, Slava Talposi, Anda-Maria Tata, Sheroy Malka, Victor |
| author_facet | Liberman, Aaron Golovanov, Anton Smartsev, Slava Talposi, Anda-Maria Tata, Sheroy Malka, Victor |
| contents | Structured light pulses hold significant promise for their ability to overcome dephasing in laser-wakefield accelerators, that should facilitate applications in high-energy physics and XFEL. Numerical studies have shown that sculpting a pulse into a flying focus and using it to drive a wakefield can achieve dephasing-free acceleration of electrons, with gain in excess of 100\,GeV within reachable with existing laser facilities. This work reports on novel experiments using a flying-focus generated laser-wakefield accelerator to accelerate electrons to relativistic energies. The flying-focus pulse is achieved by sculpting the laser-pulse before focusing using spatio-temporal couplings and generating a quasi-Bessel beam with an axiparabola. This combination allows for the tuning of the propagation velocity of the wakefield, which, we demonstrate, has an impact on the maximum achievable electron energy. Optical and particle-in-cell simulations are used to support the data and to provide direct evidence of the partial mitigation of dephasing through this flying-focus scheme. These results are further elucidated in our companion letter [1]. |
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| spellingShingle | Electron Acceleration in a Flying-Focus Laser Wakefield Accelerator Liberman, Aaron Golovanov, Anton Smartsev, Slava Talposi, Anda-Maria Tata, Sheroy Malka, Victor Accelerator Physics Optics Plasma Physics Structured light pulses hold significant promise for their ability to overcome dephasing in laser-wakefield accelerators, that should facilitate applications in high-energy physics and XFEL. Numerical studies have shown that sculpting a pulse into a flying focus and using it to drive a wakefield can achieve dephasing-free acceleration of electrons, with gain in excess of 100\,GeV within reachable with existing laser facilities. This work reports on novel experiments using a flying-focus generated laser-wakefield accelerator to accelerate electrons to relativistic energies. The flying-focus pulse is achieved by sculpting the laser-pulse before focusing using spatio-temporal couplings and generating a quasi-Bessel beam with an axiparabola. This combination allows for the tuning of the propagation velocity of the wakefield, which, we demonstrate, has an impact on the maximum achievable electron energy. Optical and particle-in-cell simulations are used to support the data and to provide direct evidence of the partial mitigation of dephasing through this flying-focus scheme. These results are further elucidated in our companion letter [1]. |
| title | Electron Acceleration in a Flying-Focus Laser Wakefield Accelerator |
| topic | Accelerator Physics Optics Plasma Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05771 |