Diagnostics for plasma-based electron accelerators

MC Downer, R Zgadzaj, A Debus, U Schramm… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
Plasma-based accelerators that impart energy gain as high as several GeV to electrons or
positrons within a few centimeters have engendered a new class of diagnostic techniques …

Free-electron lasing at 27 nanometres based on a laser wakefield accelerator

W Wang, K Feng, L Ke, C Yu, Y Xu, R Qi, Y Chen, Z Qin… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
X-ray free-electron lasers can generate intense and coherent radiation at wavelengths down
to the sub-ångström region,,,–, and have become indispensable tools for applications in …

Seeded free-electron laser driven by a compact laser plasma accelerator

M Labat, JC Cabadağ, A Ghaith, A Irman, A Berlioux… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Free-electron lasers generate high-brilliance coherent radiation at wavelengths spanning
from the infrared to the X-ray domains. The recent development of short-wavelength seeded …

Undulator design for a laser-plasma-based free-electron-laser

A Ghaith, ME Couprie, D Oumbarek-Espinos… - Physics reports, 2021 - Elsevier
The fourth generation of synchrotron radiation sources, commonly referred to as the Free
Electron Laser (FEL), provides an intense source of brilliant X-ray beams enabling the …

Propagation of intense laser pulses in plasma with a prepared phase-space distribution

DN Gupta, SR Yoffe, A Jain, B Ersfeld… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Optimizing the laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA) requires control of the intense driving
laser pulse and its stable propagation. This is usually challenging because of mode …

Control of laser plasma accelerated electrons for light sources

T André, IA Andriyash, A Loulergue, M Labat… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
With gigaelectron-volts per centimetre energy gains and femtosecond electron beams, laser
wakefield acceleration (LWFA) is a promising candidate for applications, such as ultrafast …

Horizon 2020 EuPRAXIA design study

PA Walker, PD Alesini, AS Alexandrova… - Journal of Physics …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Horizon 2020 Project EuPRAXIA (" European Plasma Research Accelerator
with eXcellence In Applications") is preparing a conceptual design report of a highly …

An application of laser–plasma acceleration: towards a free-electron laser amplification

ME Couprie, M Labat, C Evain, F Marteau… - Plasma Physics and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The laser–plasma accelerator (LPA) presently provides electron beams with a typical current
of a few kA, a bunch length of a few fs, energy in the few hundred MeV to several GeV range …

A history of high-power laser research and development in the United Kingdom

CN Danson, M White, JRM Barr, T Bett… - High Power Laser …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The first demonstration of laser action in ruby was made in 1960 by TH Maiman of Hughes
Research Laboratories, USA. Many laboratories worldwide began the search for lasers …

Permanent magnet-based quadrupoles for plasma acceleration sources

A Ghaith, D Oumbarek, C Kitégi, M Valléau, F Marteau… - Instruments, 2019 - mdpi.com
The laser plasma accelerator has shown a great promise where it uses plasma wakefields
achieving gradients as high as GeV/cm. With such properties, one would be able to build …