Applications of laser wakefield accelerator-based light sources

F Albert, AGR Thomas - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Laser-wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) were proposed more than three decades ago, and
while they promise to deliver compact, high energy particle accelerators, they will also …

Targets for high repetition rate laser facilities: needs, challenges and perspectives

I Prencipe, J Fuchs, S Pascarelli… - High Power Laser …, 2017 - cambridge.org
A number of laser facilities coming online all over the world promise the capability of high-
power laser experiments with shot repetition rates between 1 and 10 Hz. Target availability …

[HTML][HTML] P3: An installation for high-energy density plasma physics and ultra-high intensity laser–matter interaction at ELI-Beamlines

S Weber, S Bechet, S Borneis, L Brabec… - Matter and Radiation …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
ELI-Beamlines (ELI-BL), one of the three pillars of the Extreme Light Infrastructure
endeavour, will be in a unique position to perform research in high-energy-density-physics …

Towards the optimisation of direct laser acceleration

AE Hussein, AV Arefiev, T Batson, H Chen… - New Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Experimental measurements using the OMEGA EP laser facility demonstrated direct laser
acceleration (DLA) of electron beams to (505±75) MeV with (140±30) nC of charge from a …

The X-ray emission effectiveness of plasma mirrors: reexamining power-law scaling for relativistic high-order harmonic generation

MR Edwards, JM Mikhailova - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Ultrashort pulsed lasers provide uniquely detailed access to the ultrafast dynamics of
physical, chemical, and biological systems, but only a handful of wavelengths are directly …

ELI gammatron beamline: a dawn of ultrafast hard X-ray science

U Chaulagain, M Lamač, M Raclavský, KP Khakurel… - Photonics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The realization of compact X-ray sources is one of the most intriguing applications of laser-
plasma based electron acceleration. These sources based on the oscillation of short micron …

Characteristics of betatron radiation from direct-laser-accelerated electrons

TW Huang, APL Robinson, CT Zhou, B Qiao, B Liu… - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
Betatron radiation from direct-laser-accelerated electrons is characterized analytically and
numerically. It is shown here that the electron dynamics is strongly dependent on a self …

Bright betatron x-rays generation from picosecond laser interactions with long-scale near critical density plasmas

XF Shen, A Pukhov, MM Günther… - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Our previous experimental and three-dimensional (3D) particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation
results demonstrated that a well-directed electron beam with space charge of about μC and …

7/5nm logic manufacturing capabilities and requirements of metrology

B Bunday, AF Bello, E Solecky… - … , Inspection, and Process …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This paper will provide an update to previous works [2][4][9] to our view of the future for in-
line high volume manufacturing (HVM) metrology for the semiconductor industry …

Transverse oscillating bubble enhanced laser-driven betatron X-ray radiation generation

R Rakowski, P Zhang, K Jensen, B Kettle… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Ultrafast high-brightness X-ray pulses have proven invaluable for a broad range of research.
Such pulses are typically generated via synchrotron emission from relativistic electron …