Direct laser acceleration in underdense plasmas with multi-PW lasers: a path to high-charge, GeV-class electron bunches

R Babjak, L Willingale, A Arefiev, M Vranic - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The direct laser acceleration (DLA) of electrons in underdense plasmas can provide
hundreds of nC of electrons accelerated to near-GeV energies using currently available …

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 …

High-flux bright x-ray source from femtosecond laser-irradiated microtapes

X Shen, A Pukhov, B Qiao - Communications Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Betatron x-ray sources from laser-plasma interaction are characterized by compactness,
ultrashort duration, broadband spectrum and micron source size. However, high-quality …

Reconstruction of lateral coherence and 2D emittance in plasma betatron X-ray sources

A Curcio, A Cianchi, G Costa, A Del Dotto… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
X-ray sources have a strong social impact, being implemented for biomedical research,
material and environmental sciences. Nowadays, compact and accessible sources are …

Large area ion beam sputtered dielectric ultrafast mirrors for petawatt laser beamlines

T Willemsen, U Chaulagain, I Havlíčková, S Borneis… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The latest advances in petawatt laser technology within the ELI Beamlines project have
stimulated the development of large surface area dielectrically coated mirrors meeting all …

Multi-lane mirror for broadband applications of the betatron x-ray source

M Raclavský, KP Khakurel, U Chaulagain, M Lamač… - Photonics, 2021 - mdpi.com
A new generation of small-scale ultrafast X-ray sources is rapidly emerging. Laser-driven
betatron radiation represents an important class of such ultrafast X-ray sources. With the …

Update on laser-driven X-ray sources at ELI Beamlines

J Nejdl, U Chaulagain, D Mai, O Hort… - Compact EUV & X-ray …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Conference title, upper and lower case, bolded, 18 point type, centered Page 1 Update on
Laser-driven X-ray Sources at ELI Beamlines J. Nejdl1,2, U. Chaulagain1, D. Mai1, O. Hort1 …

Performance study on a soft X-ray betatron radiation source realized in the self-injection regime of laser-plasma wakefield acceleration

A Curcio, A Cianchi, G Costa, F Demurtas, M Ehret… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
We present an analysis of the performance of a broadband secondary radiation source
based on a high-gradient laser-plasma wakefield electron accelerator. In more detail, we …

[HTML][HTML] The EuAPS Betatron Radiation Source: Status Update and Photon Science Perspectives

F Galdenzi, MP Anania, A Balerna, RJ Bean… - Condensed …, 2024 - mdpi.com
The EuPRAXIA EU project is at the forefront of advancing particle accelerator research and
the development of photon sources through innovative plasma acceleration approaches …

Direct laser acceleration in varying plasma density profiles

R Babjak, B Martinez, M Krus, M Vranic - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.10702, 2024 - arxiv.org
Direct laser acceleration has proven to be an efficient source of high-charge electron
bunches and high brilliance X-rays. However, an analytical description of the acceleration in …