The production of high-quality electron bunches in Laser Wake Field Acceleration relies on the possibility to inject ultra-low emittance bunches in the plasma wave. In this paper, we present a new bunch injection scheme in which electrons extracted by ionization are trapped by a largeamplitude plasma wave driven by a train of resonant ultrashort pulses. In the Resonant Multi-Pulse Ionization injection scheme, the main portion of a single ultrashort (e.g., Ti:Sa) laser system pulse is temporally shaped as a sequence of resonant sub-pulses, while a minor portion acts as an ionizing pulse. Simulations show that high-quality electron bunches with normalized emittance as low as 0.08mmmrad and 0.65% energy spread can be obtained with a single present-day 100TW-class Ti:Sa laser system.
The resonant multi-pulse ionization injection / Fedele, Renato. - In: PHYSICS OF PLASMAS. - ISSN 1089-7674. - 24:(2017), pp. 103120-1-103120-9. [10.1063/1.5000696]
The resonant multi-pulse ionization injection
Renato Fedele
2017
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The production of high-quality electron bunches in Laser Wake Field Acceleration relies on the possibility to inject ultra-low emittance bunches in the plasma wave. In this paper, we present a new bunch injection scheme in which electrons extracted by ionization are trapped by a largeamplitude plasma wave driven by a train of resonant ultrashort pulses. In the Resonant Multi-Pulse Ionization injection scheme, the main portion of a single ultrashort (e.g., Ti:Sa) laser system pulse is temporally shaped as a sequence of resonant sub-pulses, while a minor portion acts as an ionizing pulse. Simulations show that high-quality electron bunches with normalized emittance as low as 0.08mmmrad and 0.65% energy spread can be obtained with a single present-day 100TW-class Ti:Sa laser system.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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