Bunch shaping in electron linear accelerators

G Ha, KJ Kim, JG Power, Y Sun, P Piot - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Modern electron linear accelerators are often designed to produce smooth bunch
distributions characterized by their macroscopic ensemble-average moments. However, an …

eXawatt center for extreme light studies

E Khazanov, A Shaykin, I Kostyukov… - High Power Laser …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The eXawatt Center for Extreme Light Studies project aimed to create a large scientific
infrastructure based on lasers with giant peak power. The project relies on the significant …

Temporal shaping of narrow-band picosecond pulses via noncolinear sum-frequency mixing of dispersion-controlled pulses

R Lemons, N Neveu, J Duris, A Marinelli, C Durfee… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2022 - APS
A long-sought-after goal for photocathode electron sources has been to improve
performance by temporally shaping the incident excitation laser pulse. The narrow …

Design of the front-end system for a subexawatt laser of the XCELS facility

IB Mukhin, AA Soloviev, EA Perevezentsev… - Quantum …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A concept of the front-end system of the XCELS (eXawatt Center for Extreme Light Studies)
facility is presented. Its design is aimed at achieving high stability of laser radiation …

Spatio-temporal shaping of photocathode laser pulses for linear electron accelerators

SY Mironov, AV Andrianov, EI Gacheva… - Physics …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Methods for the spatio-temporal shaping of photocathode laser pulses for generating high
brightness electron beams in modern linear accelerators are discussed. The possibility of …

Shaping triangular picosecond laser pulses for electron photoinjectors

I Kuzmin, S Mironov, E Gacheva… - Laser Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Beam driven wakefield acceleration is one of the most advanced novel accelerator
concepts. This process occurs in a plasma or a slow-wave structure in which the drive beam …

Noncollinear frequency mixing and fourth-harmonic generation of oppositely chirped laser pulses

M Martyanov, I Kuzmin, A Poteomkin, S Mironov - JOSA B, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Highly efficient fourth-harmonic generation of 60 µJ, 25 ps chirped (compressible down to
340 fs FWHM) Yb: KGW laser pulses was demonstrated experimentally utilizing noncollinear …

Generation of 3D ellipsoidal laser beams by means of a profiled volume chirped Bragg grating

SY Mironov, AK Poteomkin, EI Gacheva… - Laser Physics …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
A method for shaping photocathode laser driver pulses into 3D ellipsoidal form has been
proposed and implemented. The key idea of the method is to use a chirped Bragg grating …

Highly efficient fourth harmonic generation of broadband laser pulses retaining 3D pulse shape

IV Kuzmin, SY Mironov, MA Martyanov, AK Potemkin… - Applied Optics, 2021 - opg.optica.org
A method for highly efficient fourth harmonic generation (FHG) retaining spatiotemporal
intensity distribution of broadband chirped laser pulses is proposed. It is based on the use of …

Nonlinearly Shaped Pulses in Photoinjectors and Free-Electron Lasers

N Neveu, R Lemons, J Duris, J Tang, Y Ding… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Photoinjectors and Free Electron Lasers (FEL) are amongst the most advanced systems in
accelerator physics and have consistently pushed the boundaries of emittance and x-ray …