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Developments in laser-driven plasma accelerators
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Laser-driven plasma accelerators provide acceleration gradients that are three orders of magnitude greater than those generated by conventional accelerators, offering the potential to shrink the length of accelerators by the same factor. To date, laser acceleration of electron beams to produce particle energies comparable to those offered by synchrotron light sources has been demonstrated with plasma acceleration stages that are only a few centimetres long. This Review describes the operation principles of laser-driven plasma accelerators, and gives an overview of their development from their proposal in 1979 to recent demonstrations. Potential applications of plasma accelerators are described, and the challenges that must be overcome before they can become practical tools are discussed. Laser-driven plasma accelerators have the potential to replace existing particle accelerators, as they are highly efficient systems that are orders of magnitude smaller than conventional particle accelerators. This review discusses recent progress and future challenges in this area.
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“The genesis of plasma accelerators was the pioneering 1979 paper by Tajima and Dawson [22] in which they suggested that the strong electric fields formed within laser-driven plasma waves could accelerate charged particles to relativistic energies.”
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BackgroundInfluentialFirst lasing and operation of an ångstrom-wavelength free-electron laser
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Physics of laser-driven plasma-based electron accelerators
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A laser–plasma accelerator producing monoenergetic electron beams
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“The first experimental results obtained in, or close to, the bubble regime were r ported in 2004 by groups at Imp rial College [40], Lawrenc Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) [41], and Labo- ratoire d’Optique Appliquée (LOA) [42].”
MethodHigh-quality electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator using plasma-channel guiding
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“Similar results were obtained by the LBNL group, who reported a spectrum peaked at 86 MeV with a width of 2%, and by the LOA group, who measured a beam at 170 MeV with a relative energy spread less than the spectrometer resolution of 24%.”
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Monoenergetic beams of relativistic electrons from intense laser–plasma interactions
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“Figure 3(b) shows an example of an electron energy spectrum obtained in this regime by a collaboration of groups from UCLA, Imperial College, and Ecole Polytechnique using the VULCAN laser at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL).”
MethodInfluentialGeV electron beams from a centimetre-scale accelerator
Leemans, W. P., Nagler, B., Gonsalves, A. J., Tóth, C., Nakamura, K., Geddes, C. G. R., Esarey, E., Schroeder, C. B., & Hooker, S. M. (2006) · Nature Physics · doi:10.1038/nphys418 · Cited by 1,708
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- Authors
- Hooker, S. M.
- Venue
- Nature Photonics
- Published
- 2013-09-27
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 775-782
- ISSN
- 1749-4885 (ISSN-L)
- 1749-4893
- OpenAlex
- W1972306178
- Cited by
- 345
- References
- 102
- FWCI
- 10.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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