Laser-driven plasma-based accelerators: Wakefield excitation, channel guiding, and laser triggered particle injection

Leemans, W. P.; Volfbeyn, P.; Guo, K. Z.; Chattopadhyay, S.; Schroeder, C. B.; Shadwick, B. A.; Lee, P. B.; Wurtele, J. S.; Esarey, E.

doi:10.1063/1.872820

Laser-driven plasma-based accelerators: Wakefield excitation, channel guiding, and laser triggered particle injection

Plasma-based accelerators are discussed in which high-power short pulse lasers are the power source, suitably tailored plasma structures provide guiding of the laser beam and support large accelerating gradients, and an optical scheme is used to produce time-synchronized ultrashort electron bunch…