Matched guiding and controlled injection in dark-current-free, 10-GeV-class, channel-guided laser-plasma accelerators

A Picksley, J Stackhouse, C Benedetti, K Nakamura… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We measure the high-intensity laser propagation throughout meter-scale, channel-guided
laser-plasma accelerators by adjusting the length of the plasma channel on a shot-by-shot …

Optimizing chirped laser pulse parameters for enhancing electron energy in a preformed ion channel

HS Ghotra - The European Physical Journal D, 2022 - Springer
The direct laser acceleration (DLA) of electrons in a preformed ion channel is examined
theoretically using a chirped circularly polarized (CP) laser pulse. The electron acceleration …

[HTML][HTML] Chromatic matching in a plasma undulator

BZ Djordjević, C Benedetti, CB Schroeder… - Physics of Plasmas, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The principle of chromatic matching, ie, using two laser modes of different geometric mode
numbers and different colors so that they copropagate at the same group velocity, is …

Transverse Wakefield Control via Phase-Matched Laser Modes in Plasma Channels

BZ Djordjević, C Benedetti… - 2018 IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The superposition of higher-order laser modes can be used to control the laser-driven
transverse wakefields in a laser-plasma accelerator operating in the quasi-linear regime. To …