Speaker
Fabrizio Giuseppe Bisesto
(LNF)
Description
Plasma-based waveguides are currently employed for laser wakefield acceleration to extend the focal region
of laser beams. Indeed, a parabolic transverse plasma density profile can be formed in a dielectric capillary as a thermal consequence of a gas discharge.
In this work, we report on a new ray tracing model, based on the Zemax software, able to simulate
the envelope of a laser beam propagating through a plasma waveguide. Thanks to the tools offered by Zemax, an ideal interferometry measurement will be shown as well as the design of a curved capillary.
Primary authors
Fabrizio Giuseppe Bisesto
(LNF)
Mario Galletti
(Instituto Superior Tecnico)
Alessandro Curcio
(CERN)
