High quality electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator

Ultralow emittance electron beams from a laser-wakefield accelerator

The Production of High Quality Electron Beams in the Alpha-x Laser Wakefield Accelerator

The ALPHA-X laser wakefield accelerator beam line comprises a high power (900 mJ, 35 fs) Ti:sapphire laser pulse, a gas jet (length 2 mm, plasma density ~ 10 cm) accelerating structure and a suite of single-shot electron beam diagnostics. Monoenergetic electron beams with central energy up to 220 MeV are generated in the accelerator. By operating close to the threshold for injection with low be...

Electron Rephasing in a Laser-Wakefield Accelerator.

An important limit for energy gain in laser-plasma wakefield accelerators is the dephasing length, after which the electron beam reaches the decelerating region of the wakefield and starts to decelerate. Here, we propose to manipulate the phase of the electron beam in the wakefield, in order to bring the beam back into the accelerating region, hence increasing the final beam energy. This rephas...

GeV electron beams from a centimeter-scale channel guided laser wakefield accelerator

Laser wakefield accelerators can produce electric fields of order 10–100 GV/m, suitable for acceleration of electrons to relativistic energies. The wakefields are excited by a relativistically intense laser pulse propagating through a plasma and have a phase velocity determined by the group velocity of the light pulse. Two important effects that can limit the acceleration distance and hence the...

Three electron beams from a laser-plasma wakefield accelerator and the energy apportioning question

Laser-wakefield accelerators are compact devices capable of delivering ultra-short electron bunches with pC-level charge and MeV-GeV energy by exploiting the ultra-high electric fields arising from the interaction of intense laser pulses with plasma. We show experimentally and through numerical simulations that a high-energy electron beam is produced simultaneously with two stable lower-energy ...