Control of seeding phase for a cascaded laser wakefield accelerator with gradient injection.

Autor: Wang, Wentao, Li, Wentao, Liu, Jiansheng, Wang, Cheng, Chen, Qiang, Zhang, Zhijun, Qi, Rong, Leng, Yuxin, Liang, Xiaoyan, Liu, Yanqi, Lu, Xiaoming, Li, Ruxin, Xu, Zhizhan
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Zdroj: Applied Physics Letters; 12/9/2013, Vol. 103 Issue 24, p243501, 5p, 3 Diagrams, 1 Graph
Abstrakt: We demonstrated experimentally the seeding-phase control for a two-stage laser wakefield accelerator with gradient injection. By optimizing the seeding phase of electrons into the second stage, electron beams beyond 0.5 GeV with a 3% rms energy spread were produced over a short acceleration distance of ∼2 mm. Peak energy of the electron beam was further extended beyond 1 GeV by lengthening the second acceleration stage to 5 mm. Time-resolved magnetic field measurements via magneto-optical Faraday polarimetry allowed us to monitor the processes of electron seeding and acceleration in the second stage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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