Speaker
Olle Lundh
(Lund University)
Description
Merging laser beams can be used to replenish the driver in a seamless multistage laser-plasma accelerator, and can enhance the X-ray emission produced by betatron electron oscillations. We experimentally demonstrate merging of two laser wakefields in plasma. A 150 TW peak-power laser beam is split in two halves which are focused at a small angle in a gas. Each laser pulse drives a plasma wakefield and accelerates relativistic electrons. When the laser pulses are synchronized, a single, high-charge electron beam is emitted along the bisector angle.
Primary author
Olle Lundh
(Lund University)
Co-authors
Isabel Gallardo Gonzalez
(Lund University)
Henrik Ekerfelt
(Lund University)
Jonas Björklund Svensson
(Lund University, Department of Physics)
Dr
Giancarlo Gatti
(CLPU)
Dr
Diego Guenot
(Lund University, Department of Physics)
Dr
Arkady Gonoskov
(University of Gothenburg)
Martin Hansson
(Atomic Physics, Lund University)
Dr
Perez-Hernandez Jose
(CLPU)
Prof.
Mattias Marklund
(University of Gothenburg)
Mr
Carlos Salgado
(CLPU)
Dr
Erik Wallin
(Chalmers University of Technology)
Mr
Ghassan Zeraouili
(CLPU)
