| Autor: |
Julius Huijts, Lucas Rovige, Igor A. Andriyash, Aline Vernier, Marie Ouillé, Jaismeen Kaur, Zhao Cheng, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens, Jérôme Faure |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Physical Review X, Vol 12, Iss 1, p 011036 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2160-3308 |
| DOI: |
10.1103/PhysRevX.12.011036 |
| Popis: |
The interaction of ultraintense laser pulses with an underdense plasma is used in laser-plasma acceleration to create compact sources of ultrashort pulses of relativistic electrons and x rays. The accelerating structure is a plasma wave, or wakefield, that is excited by the laser ponderomotive force, a force that is usually assumed to depend solely on the laser envelope and not on its exact waveform. Here, we use near-single-cycle laser pulses with a controlled carrier-envelope phase to show that the actual waveform of the laser field has a clear impact on the plasma response. The beam pointing of our relativistic electron beam oscillates in phase with the carrier-envelope phase of the laser, at an amplitude of 15 mrad, or 30% of the beam divergence. Numerical simulations explain this observation through asymmetries in the injection and acceleration of the electron beam, which are locked to the carrier-envelope phase. These results imply that we achieve waveform control of relativistic electron dynamics. Our results pave the way to high-precision, subcycle control of electron injection in plasma accelerators, enabling the production of attosecond relativistic electron bunches and x rays. |
| Databáze: |
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