Plasma-wave generation and acceleration of electrons by a nondiverging beating optical beam

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2023-06

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Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, Volume 26, issue 6

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Plasma waves can be used to create efficient and small-sized electron accelerators. Despite the already demonstrated success in reaching GeV-scale energy gain in the motion of electrons, laser-induced wakefields still suffer from the transverse spreading and the loss of synchronization with the accelerating particles. In this work, to tackle these problems, we propose using a two-wavelength structured laser beam with a designed angular dispersion and adjustable group velocity in free space to efficiently excite a nondiverging plasma wave. This approach allows one to generate an electron bunch with low transverse spread and reach high average acceleration gradients.

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Funding Information: E. P. acknowledges support from the Finnish National Agency for Education (TM-21-11566). The authors acknowledge the Aalto Science-IT project and the Academy of Finland Flagship Programme, Photonics Research and Innovation (PREIN). Publisher Copyright: © 2023 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.

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Ponomareva , E & Shevchenko , A 2023 , ' Plasma-wave generation and acceleration of electrons by a nondiverging beating optical beam ' , Physical Review Accelerators and Beams , vol. 26 , no. 6 , 061301 , pp. 1-7 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.26.061301