Laser wakefield acceleration experiments at the university of Michigan

T. Matsuoka; C. McGuffey; C. M. Huntington; Y. Horovitz; F. Dollar; S. S. Bulanov; V. Chvykov; G. Kalintchenko; S. Reed; P. Rousseau; V. Yanovsky; M. Levin; A. Zigler; R. P. Drake; A. Maksimchuk; K. Krushelnick

doi:10.1063/1.3080902

Laser wakefield acceleration experiments at the university of Michigan

T. Matsuoka^*
, C. McGuffey
, C. M. Huntington
, Y. Horovitz
, F. Dollar
, S. S. Bulanov
, V. Chvykov
, G. Kalintchenko
, S. Reed
, P. Rousseau
, V. Yanovsky
, M. Levin
, A. Zigler
, R. P. Drake
, A. Maksimchuk
, K. Krushelnick

^*Corresponding author for this work

Racah Institute of Physics

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Abstract

Laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) in a supersonic gas-jet using a self-guided laser pulse was studied by changing the laser power and electron density. The recently upgraded HERCULES laser facility equipped with wavefront correction enables a peak intensity of 8× 10¹⁹ W/cm² at laser power of 100 TW to be delivered to the gas-jet using f/10 focusing optics. We found that electron beam charge was increased significantly with an increase of the laser power from 30 TW to 80 TW and showed density threshold behavior at a fixed laser power. Betatron motion of electrons was also observed depending on laser power and electron density.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	184-189
Number of pages	6
Journal	AIP Conference Proceedings
Volume	1086
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3080902
State	Published - 2009
Event	13th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop - Santa Cruz, CA, United States Duration: 27 Jul 2008 → 2 Aug 2008

Keywords

Injection threshold
Laser wakefield acceleration
Wavefront correction

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Matsuoka, T., McGuffey, C., Huntington, C. M., Horovitz, Y., Dollar, F., Bulanov, S. S., Chvykov, V., Kalintchenko, G., Reed, S., Rousseau, P., Yanovsky, V., Levin, M., Zigler, A., Drake, R. P., Maksimchuk, A., & Krushelnick, K. (2009). Laser wakefield acceleration experiments at the university of Michigan. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1086, 184-189. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3080902

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