Sep 15 – 21, 2019
Hotel Hermitage, La Biodola Bay, Isola d'Elba, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

Electron acceleration in merging laser wakefields

Sep 17, 2019, 6:00 PM
20m
SML (Hotel Hermitage)

SML

Hotel Hermitage

talk WG1 - Electron beams from plasmas WG1 - Plasma acceleration physics II and high rep rates

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)

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