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Huang K, Jin Z, Nakanii N, Hosokai T, Kando M. Electro-optic 3D snapshot of a laser wakefield accelerated kilo-ampere electron bunch. LIGHT, SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS 2024; 13:84. [PMID: 38584154 PMCID: PMC10999425 DOI: 10.1038/s41377-024-01440-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2023] [Revised: 02/27/2024] [Accepted: 03/25/2024] [Indexed: 04/09/2024]
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Laser wakefield acceleration, as an advanced accelerator concept, has attracted great attentions for its ultrahigh acceleration gradient and the capability to produce high brightness electron bunches. The three-dimensional (3D) density serves as an evaluation metric for the particle bunch quality and is intrinsically related to the applications of an accelerator. Despite its significance, this parameter has not been experimentally measured in the investigation of laser wakefield acceleration. We report on an electro-optic 3D snapshot of a laser wakefield electron bunch at a position outside the plasma. The 3D shape of the electron bunch was detected by simultaneously performing optical transition radiation imaging and electro-optic sampling. Detailed 3D structures to a few micrometer levels were reconstructed using a genetic algorithm. The electron bunch possessed a transverse size of less than 30 micrometers. The current profile shows a multi-peak structure. The main peak had a duration of < 10 fs and a peak current > 1 kA. The maximum electron 3D number density was ~ 9 × 1021 m -3. This research demonstrates a feasible way of 3D density monitoring on femtosecond kilo-ampere electron bunches, at any position of a beam transport line for relevant applications.
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- Kai Huang
- Kansai Institute for Photon Science (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Kyoto, Japan.
- Laser Accelerator R&D, Innovative Light Sources Division, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Hyogo, Japan.
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- Laser Accelerator R&D, Innovative Light Sources Division, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Hyogo, Japan
- SANKEN, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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- Kansai Institute for Photon Science (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Kyoto, Japan
- Laser Accelerator R&D, Innovative Light Sources Division, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Hyogo, Japan
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- Laser Accelerator R&D, Innovative Light Sources Division, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Hyogo, Japan
- SANKEN, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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- Kansai Institute for Photon Science (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Kyoto, Japan
- Laser Accelerator R&D, Innovative Light Sources Division, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Hyogo, Japan
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Oumbarek Espinos D, Rondepierre A, Zhidkov A, Pathak N, Jin Z, Huang K, Nakanii N, Daito I, Kando M, Hosokai T. Notable improvements on LWFA through precise laser wavefront tuning. Sci Rep 2023; 13:18466. [PMID: 37891421 PMCID: PMC10611724 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-45737-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2023] [Accepted: 10/23/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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Laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) continues to grow and awaken interest worldwide, especially as in various applications it approaches performance comparable to classical accelerators. However, numerous challenges still exist until this can be a reality. The complex non-linear nature of the process of interaction between the laser and the induced plasma remains an obstacle to the widespread LWFA use as stable and reliable particle sources. It is commonly accepted that the best wavefront is a perfect Gaussian distribution. However, experimentally, this is not correct and more complicated ones can potentially give better results. in this work, the effects of tuning the laser wavefront via the controlled introduction of aberrations are explored for an LWFA accelerator using the shock injection configuration. Our experiments show the clear unique correlation between the generated beam transverse characteristics and the different input wavefronts. The electron beams stability, acceleration and injection are also significantly different. We found that in our case, the best beams were generated with a specific complex wavefront. A greater understanding of electron generation as function of the laser input is achieved thanks to this method and hopes towards a higher level of control on the electrons beams by LWFA is foreseen.
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- Driss Oumbarek Espinos
- Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (SANKEN), Osaka University, Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan.
- Laser Accelerator R &D, Innovative Light Sources Division, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1, Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, Osaka, 679-5148, Japan.
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- Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (SANKEN), Osaka University, Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
- Laser Accelerator R &D, Innovative Light Sources Division, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1, Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, Osaka, 679-5148, Japan
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- Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (SANKEN), Osaka University, Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
- Laser Accelerator R &D, Innovative Light Sources Division, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1, Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, Osaka, 679-5148, Japan
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- Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (SANKEN), Osaka University, Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
- Laser Accelerator R &D, Innovative Light Sources Division, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1, Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, Osaka, 679-5148, Japan
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- Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (SANKEN), Osaka University, Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
- Laser Accelerator R &D, Innovative Light Sources Division, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1, Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, Osaka, 679-5148, Japan
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- Laser Accelerator R &D, Innovative Light Sources Division, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1, Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, Osaka, 679-5148, Japan
- Kansai Institute for Photon Science (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 8-1-7, Umemidai, Kizugawa, Kyoto, 619-0215, Japan
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- Laser Accelerator R &D, Innovative Light Sources Division, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1, Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, Osaka, 679-5148, Japan
- Kansai Institute for Photon Science (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 8-1-7, Umemidai, Kizugawa, Kyoto, 619-0215, Japan
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- Kansai Institute for Photon Science (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 8-1-7, Umemidai, Kizugawa, Kyoto, 619-0215, Japan
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- Laser Accelerator R &D, Innovative Light Sources Division, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1, Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, Osaka, 679-5148, Japan
- Kansai Institute for Photon Science (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 8-1-7, Umemidai, Kizugawa, Kyoto, 619-0215, Japan
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- Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (SANKEN), Osaka University, Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
- Laser Accelerator R &D, Innovative Light Sources Division, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1, Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, Osaka, 679-5148, Japan
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Dewhurst KA, Muratori BD, Brunetti E, van der Geer B, de Loos M, Owen HL, Wiggins SM, Jaroszynski DA. A beamline to control longitudinal phase space whilst transporting laser wakefield accelerated electrons to an undulator. Sci Rep 2023; 13:8831. [PMID: 37258601 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-35435-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2022] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 06/02/2023] Open
Abstract
Laser wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) can produce high-energy electron bunches in short distances. Successfully coupling these sources with undulators has the potential to form an LWFA-driven free-electron laser (FEL), providing high-intensity short-wavelength radiation. Electron bunches produced from LWFAs have a correlated distribution in longitudinal phase space: a chirp. However, both LWFAs and FELs have strict parameter requirements. The bunch chirp created using ideal LWFA parameters may not suit the FEL; for example, a chirp can reduce the high peak current required for free-electron lasing. We, therefore, design a flexible beamline that can accept either positively or negatively chirped LWFA bunches and adjust the chirp during transport to an undulator. We have used the accelerator design program MAD8 to design a beamline in stages, and to track particle bunches. The final beamline design can produce ambidirectional values of longitudinal dispersion ([Formula: see text]): we demonstrate values of + 0.20 mm, 0.00 mm and - 0.22 mm. Positive or negative values of [Formula: see text] apply a shear forward or backward in the longitudinal phase space of the electron bunch, which provides control of the bunch chirp. This chirp control during the bunch transport gives an additional free parameter and marks a new approach to matching future LWFA-driven FELs.
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- Kay A Dewhurst
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
- The Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, WA4 4AD, UK.
- Beams Department (BE), CERN, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland.
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- The Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, WA4 4AD, UK
- ASTeC, UKRI-STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, WA4 4FS, UK
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- SUPA, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G4 0NG, UK
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- The Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, WA4 4AD, UK
- ASTeC, UKRI-STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, WA4 4FS, UK
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- SUPA, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G4 0NG, UK
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- SUPA, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G4 0NG, UK.
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Wan Y, Tata S, Seemann O, Levine EY, Smartsev S, Kroupp E, Malka V. Femtosecond electron microscopy of relativistic electron bunches. LIGHT, SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS 2023; 12:116. [PMID: 37164977 PMCID: PMC10172298 DOI: 10.1038/s41377-023-01142-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2022] [Revised: 03/15/2023] [Accepted: 03/30/2023] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The development of plasma-based accelerators has enabled the generation of very high brightness electron bunches of femtosecond duration, micrometer size and ultralow emittance, crucial for emerging applications including ultrafast detection in material science, laboratory-scale free-electron lasers and compact colliders for high-energy physics. The precise characterization of the initial bunch parameters is critical to the ability to manipulate the beam properties for downstream applications. Proper diagnostic of such ultra-short and high charge density laser-plasma accelerated bunches, however, remains very challenging. Here we address this challenge with a novel technique we name as femtosecond ultrarelativistic electron microscopy, which utilizes an electron bunch from another laser-plasma accelerator as a probe. In contrast to conventional microscopy of using very low-energy electrons, the femtosecond duration and high electron energy of such a probe beam enable it to capture the ultra-intense space-charge fields of the investigated bunch and to reconstruct the charge distribution with very high spatiotemporal resolution, all in a single shot. In the experiment presented here we have used this technique to study the shape of a laser-plasma accelerated electron beam, its asymmetry due to the drive laser polarization, and its beam evolution as it exits the plasma. We anticipate that this method will significantly advance the understanding of complex beam-plasma dynamics and will also provide a powerful new tool for real-time optimization of plasma accelerators.
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- Yang Wan
- Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 7610001, Israel.
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- Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 7610001, Israel
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Formanek M, Palastro JP, Vranic M, Ramsey D, Di Piazza A. Charged particle beam transport in a flying focus pulse with orbital angular momentum. Phys Rev E 2023; 107:055213. [PMID: 37329074 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.107.055213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2023] [Accepted: 05/04/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
We demonstrate the capability of flying focus (FF) laser pulses with ℓ=1 orbital angular momentum (OAM) to transversely confine ultrarelativistic charged particle bunches over macroscopic distances while maintaining a tight bunch radius. A FF pulse with ℓ=1 OAM creates a radial ponderomotive barrier that constrains the transverse motion of particles and travels with the bunch over extended distances. As compared with freely propagating bunches, which quickly diverge due to their initial momentum spread, the particles cotraveling with the ponderomotive barrier slowly oscillate around the laser pulse axis within the spot size of the pulse. This can be achieved at FF pulse energies that are orders of magnitude lower than required by Gaussian or Bessel pulses with OAM. The ponderomotive trapping is further enhanced by radiative cooling of the bunch resulting from rapid oscillations of the charged particles in the laser field. This cooling decreases the mean-square radius and emittance of the bunch during propagation.
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- Martin Formanek
- Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Saupfercheckweg 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
- ELI Beamlines Facility, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, 252 41 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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- GOLP/Instituto de Plasma e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Saupfercheckweg 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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Habib AF, Manahan GG, Scherkl P, Heinemann T, Sutherland A, Altuiri R, Alotaibi BM, Litos M, Cary J, Raubenheimer T, Hemsing E, Hogan MJ, Rosenzweig JB, Williams PH, McNeil BWJ, Hidding B. Attosecond-Angstrom free-electron-laser towards the cold beam limit. Nat Commun 2023; 14:1054. [PMID: 36828817 PMCID: PMC9958197 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36592-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 02/26/2023] Open
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Electron beam quality is paramount for X-ray pulse production in free-electron-lasers (FELs). State-of-the-art linear accelerators (linacs) can deliver multi-GeV electron beams with sufficient quality for hard X-ray-FELs, albeit requiring km-scale setups, whereas plasma-based accelerators can produce multi-GeV electron beams on metre-scale distances, and begin to reach beam qualities sufficient for EUV FELs. Here we show, that electron beams from plasma photocathodes many orders of magnitude brighter than state-of-the-art can be generated in plasma wakefield accelerators (PWFAs), and then extracted, captured, transported and injected into undulators without significant quality loss. These ultrabright, sub-femtosecond electron beams can drive hard X-FELs near the cold beam limit to generate coherent X-ray pulses of attosecond-Angstrom class, reaching saturation after only 10 metres of undulator. This plasma-X-FEL opens pathways for advanced photon science capabilities, such as unperturbed observation of electronic motion inside atoms at their natural time and length scale, and towards higher photon energies.
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- A. F. Habib
- grid.11984.350000000121138138Department of Physics, Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK ,grid.450757.40000 0004 6085 4374The Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury, UK
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- grid.11984.350000000121138138Department of Physics, Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK ,grid.450757.40000 0004 6085 4374The Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury, UK
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- grid.11984.350000000121138138Department of Physics, Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK ,grid.450757.40000 0004 6085 4374The Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury, UK ,grid.9026.d0000 0001 2287 2617University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Hamburg, 20246 Hamburg, Germany
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- grid.11984.350000000121138138Department of Physics, Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK ,grid.450757.40000 0004 6085 4374The Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury, UK
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- grid.11984.350000000121138138Department of Physics, Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK ,grid.450757.40000 0004 6085 4374The Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury, UK
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- grid.11984.350000000121138138Department of Physics, Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK ,grid.449346.80000 0004 0501 7602Physics Department, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- grid.11984.350000000121138138Department of Physics, Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK ,grid.449346.80000 0004 0501 7602Physics Department, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- grid.266190.a0000000096214564Department of Physics, Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO USA
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- grid.266190.a0000000096214564Department of Physics, Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO USA ,grid.448325.c0000 0004 0556 1325Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, USA
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- grid.445003.60000 0001 0725 7771SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
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- grid.445003.60000 0001 0725 7771SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
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- grid.445003.60000 0001 0725 7771SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
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- grid.19006.3e0000 0000 9632 6718Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA
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- grid.450757.40000 0004 6085 4374The Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury, UK ,grid.482271.a0000 0001 0727 2226ASTeC, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, UK
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- grid.11984.350000000121138138Department of Physics, Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK ,grid.450757.40000 0004 6085 4374The Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury, UK
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- grid.11984.350000000121138138Department of Physics, Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK ,grid.450757.40000 0004 6085 4374The Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury, UK ,grid.411327.20000 0001 2176 9917Institute for Laser and Plasma Physics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Pompili R, Alesini D, Anania MP, Arjmand S, Behtouei M, Bellaveglia M, Biagioni A, Buonomo B, Cardelli F, Carpanese M, Chiadroni E, Cianchi A, Costa G, Del Dotto A, Del Giorno M, Dipace F, Doria A, Filippi F, Galletti M, Giannessi L, Giribono A, Iovine P, Lollo V, Mostacci A, Nguyen F, Opromolla M, Di Palma E, Pellegrino L, Petralia A, Petrillo V, Piersanti L, Di Pirro G, Romeo S, Rossi AR, Scifo J, Selce A, Shpakov V, Stella A, Vaccarezza C, Villa F, Zigler A, Ferrario M. Free-electron lasing with compact beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator. Nature 2022; 605:659-662. [PMID: 35614244 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04589-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2021] [Accepted: 02/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
The possibility to accelerate electron beams to ultra-relativistic velocities over short distances by using plasma-based technology holds the potential for a revolution in the field of particle accelerators1-4. The compact nature of plasma-based accelerators would allow the realization of table-top machines capable of driving a free-electron laser (FEL)5, a formidable tool to investigate matter at the sub-atomic level by generating coherent light pulses with sub-ångström wavelengths and sub-femtosecond durations6,7. So far, however, the high-energy electron beams required to operate FELs had to be obtained through the use of conventional large-size radio-frequency (RF) accelerators, bound to a sizeable footprint as a result of their limited accelerating fields. Here we report the experimental evidence of FEL lasing by a compact (3-cm) particle-beam-driven plasma accelerator. The accelerated beams are completely characterized in the six-dimensional phase space and have high quality, comparable with state-of-the-art accelerators8. This allowed the observation of narrow-band amplified radiation in the infrared range with typical exponential growth of its intensity over six consecutive undulators. This proof-of-principle experiment represents a fundamental milestone in the use of plasma-based accelerators, contributing to the development of next-generation compact facilities for user-oriented applications9.
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- R Pompili
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy.
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- ENEA Fusion and Technology for Nuclear Safety and Security Department (FSN), C.R. Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.,INFN Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.,NAST Center, Rome, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- ENEA Fusion and Technology for Nuclear Safety and Security Department (FSN), C.R. Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- ENEA Fusion and Technology for Nuclear Safety and Security Department (FSN), C.R. Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.,INFN Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.,NAST Center, Rome, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- ENEA Fusion and Technology for Nuclear Safety and Security Department (FSN), C.R. Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- ENEA Fusion and Technology for Nuclear Safety and Security Department (FSN), C.R. Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- ENEA Fusion and Technology for Nuclear Safety and Security Department (FSN), C.R. Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- ENEA Fusion and Technology for Nuclear Safety and Security Department (FSN), C.R. Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy.,Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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A Laser Frequency Transverse Modulation Might Compensate for the Spectral Broadening Due to Large Electron Energy Spread in Thomson Sources. PHOTONICS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/photonics9020062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
Abstract
Compact laser plasma accelerators generate high-energy electron beams with increasing quality. When used in inverse Compton backscattering, however, the relatively large electron energy spread jeopardizes potential applications requiring small bandwidths. We present here a novel interaction scheme that allows us to compensate for the negative effects of the electron energy spread on the spectrum, by introducing a transverse spatial frequency modulation in the laser pulse. Such a laser chirp, together with a properly dispersed electron beam, can substantially reduce the broadening of the Compton bandwidth due to the electron energy spread. We show theoretical analysis and numerical simulations for hard X-ray Thomson sources based on laser plasma accelerators.
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Wang W, Feng K, Ke L, Yu C, Xu Y, Qi R, Chen Y, Qin Z, Zhang Z, Fang M, Liu J, Jiang K, Wang H, Wang C, Yang X, Wu F, Leng Y, Liu J, Li R, Xu Z. Free-electron lasing at 27 nanometres based on a laser wakefield accelerator. Nature 2021; 595:516-520. [PMID: 34290428 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03678-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2020] [Accepted: 05/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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X-ray free-electron lasers can generate intense and coherent radiation at wavelengths down to the sub-ångström region1-5, and have become indispensable tools for applications in structural biology and chemistry, among other disciplines6. Several X-ray free-electron laser facilities are in operation2-5; however, their requirement for large, high-cost, state-of-the-art radio-frequency accelerators has led to great interest in the development of compact and economical accelerators. Laser wakefield accelerators can sustain accelerating gradients more than three orders of magnitude higher than those of radio-frequency accelerators7-10, and are regarded as an attractive option for driving compact X-ray free-electron lasers11. However, the realization of such devices remains a challenge owing to the relatively poor quality of electron beams that are based on a laser wakefield accelerator. Here we present an experimental demonstration of undulator radiation amplification in the exponential-gain regime by using electron beams based on a laser wakefield accelerator. The amplified undulator radiation, which is typically centred at 27 nanometres and has a maximum photon number of around 1010 per shot, yields a maximum radiation energy of about 150 nanojoules. In the third of three undulators in the device, the maximum gain of the radiation power is approximately 100-fold, confirming a successful operation in the exponential-gain regime. Our results constitute a proof-of-principle demonstration of free-electron lasing using a laser wakefield accelerator, and pave the way towards the development of compact X-ray free-electron lasers based on this technology with broad applications.
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- Wentao Wang
- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People's Republic of China.,Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People's Republic of China.,School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People's Republic of China. .,School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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Liu W, Feng C, Jiao Y, Wang S. A coherent harmonic generation method for producing femtosecond coherent radiation in a laser plasma accelerator based light source. JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 2021; 28:669-680. [PMID: 33949977 DOI: 10.1107/s1600577521002745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2020] [Accepted: 03/13/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The electron beam generated in laser plasma accelerators (LPAs) has two main initial weaknesses - a large beam divergence (up to a few milliradians) and a few percent level energy spread. They reduce the beam brightness and worsen the coherence of the LPA-based light source. To achieve fully coherent radiation, several methods have been proposed for generating strong microbunching on LPA beams. In these methods, a seed laser is used to induce an angular modulation into the electron beam, and the angular modulation is converted into a strong density modulation through a beamline with nonzero longitudinal position and transverse angle coupling. In this paper, an alternative method to generate microbunching into the LPA beam by using a seed laser that induces an energy modulation and transverse-longitudinal coupling beamlines that convert the energy modulation into strong density modulation is proposed. Compared with the angular modulation methods, the proposed method can use more than one order of magnitude lower seed laser power to achieve similar radiation performance. Simulations show that with the proposed method a coherent pulse of a few microjoules pulse energy and femtosecond duration can be generated with a typical LPA beam.
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- Weihang Liu
- China Spallation Neutron Source, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dongguan, Guangdong 523803, People's Republic of China
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- Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201210, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Particle Acceleration Physics and Technology, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- China Spallation Neutron Source, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dongguan, Guangdong 523803, People's Republic of China
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Perosa G, Di Mitri S. Matrix model for collective phenomena in electron beam's longitudinal phase space. Sci Rep 2021; 11:7895. [PMID: 33846439 PMCID: PMC8041831 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-87041-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2021] [Accepted: 03/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The possibility to predict, characterize and minimize the presence of spurious harmonic content in the longitudinal profile of high brightness electron beams, namely the microbunching instability, has become vital to ensure accurate modeling and reliable operation of radiofrequency and plasma-based linear accelerators such as those driving free-electron lasers. Recently, the impact of intrabeam scattering (IBS) on the instability has been experimentally demonstrated by the authors. This work complements that experimental study by extending existing theories in a self-consistent, piece-wise calculation of IBS in single pass linacs and multi-bend transfer lines. New expressions for the IBS are introduced in two different semi-analytical models of microbunching. The accuracy of the proposed models and the range of beam parameters to which they apply is discussed. The overall modeling turns out to be a fast comprehensive tool for the optimization of linac-driven free-electron lasers.
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- Giovanni Perosa
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Piazzale Europa 1, Trieste, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Piazzale Europa 1, Trieste, Italy.,Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., S.S. 14-km 163.5 in AREA Science Park, 34149, Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
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Boivinet S, Pellegrina A, Ranc L, Morbieu T, Vidal S, Yehouessi JP, Morin P, Lecommandoux H, Robin K, Vinçont C, Pierre C, Berisset M, Machinet G, Loulier A, Boullet J, Besaucele H, Beaurepaire B, Casagrande O, Simon-Boisson C, Laux S, Ricaud S. 30 TW and 33 fs pulses delivered by a Ti:Sa amplifier system seeded with a frequency-doubled fiber laser. APPLIED OPTICS 2020; 59:7390-7395. [PMID: 32902507 DOI: 10.1364/ao.401351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Accepted: 07/27/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We report a full experimental comparison study on the injection of a Ti:Sa multi-terawatt amplifier chain with a standard 15 fs Ti:Sa oscillator and 35 fs frequency-doubled fiber oscillator. The study highlights that the Ti:Sa oscillator, with high performance in terms of pulse duration and spectral width, can be replaced by the frequency-doubled fiber oscillator to seed Ti:Sa amplifier chains almost without any compromise on the output pulse duration and picosecond contrast. Finally, we demonstrate for the first time to our knowledge a 30 TW and 33 fs Ti:Sa amplifier injected by a fiber oscillator.
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Lumpkin AH, LaBerge M, Rule DW, Zgadzaj R, Hannasch A, Zarini O, Bowers B, Irman A, Couperus Cabadağ JP, Debus A, Köhler A, Schramm U, Downer MC. Coherent Optical Signatures of Electron Microbunching in Laser-Driven Plasma Accelerators. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 125:014801. [PMID: 32678646 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.014801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2019] [Revised: 05/27/2020] [Accepted: 06/09/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We report observations of coherent optical transition radiation interferometry (COTRI) patterns generated by microbunched ∼200-MeV electrons as they emerge from a laser-driven plasma accelerator. The divergence of the microbunched portion of electrons, deduced by comparison to a COTRI model, is ∼9× smaller than the ∼3 mrad ensemble beam divergence, while the radius of the microbunched beam, obtained from COTR images on the same shot, is <3 μm. The combined results show that the microbunched distribution has estimated transverse normalized emittance ∼0.4 mm mrad.
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- A H Lumpkin
- Accelerator Division, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Physics Department, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Silver Spring, Maryland 20904, USA
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- Physics Department, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Physics Department, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, 01328 Dresden, Germany
- Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany
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- Physics Department, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, 01328 Dresden, Germany
- Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, 01328 Dresden, Germany
- Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany
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- Physics Department, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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Water-Window X-Ray Pulses from a Laser-Plasma Driven Undulator. Sci Rep 2020; 10:5634. [PMID: 32221373 PMCID: PMC7101387 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-62401-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2019] [Accepted: 03/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Femtosecond (fs) x-ray pulses are a key tool to study the structure and dynamics of matter on its natural length and time scale. To complement radio-frequency accelerator-based large-scale facilities, novel laser-based mechanisms hold promise for compact laboratory-scale x-ray sources. Laser-plasma driven undulator radiation in particular offers high peak-brightness, optically synchronized few-fs pulses reaching into the few-nanometer (nm) regime. To date, however, few experiments have successfully demonstrated plasma-driven undulator radiation. Those that have, typically operated at single and comparably long wavelengths. Here we demonstrate plasma-driven undulator radiation with octave-spanning tuneability at discrete wavelengths reaching from 13 nm to 4 nm. Studying spontaneous undulator radiation is an important step towards a plasma-driven free-electron laser. Our specific setup creates a photon pulse, which closely resembles the plasma electron bunch length and charge profile and thus might enable novel methods to characterize the longitudinal electron phase space.
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Ghaith A, Oumbarek D, Roussel E, Corde S, Labat M, André T, Loulergue A, Andriyash IA, Chubar O, Kononenko O, Smartsev S, Marcouillé O, Kitégi C, Marteau F, Valléau M, Thaury C, Gautier J, Sebban S, Tafzi A, Blache F, Briquez F, Tavakoli K, Carcy A, Bouvet F, Dietrich Y, Lambert G, Hubert N, El Ajjouri M, Polack F, Dennetière D, Leclercq N, Rommeluère P, Duval JP, Sebdaoui M, Bourgoin C, Lestrade A, Benabderrahmane C, Vétéran J, Berteaud P, De Oliveira C, Goddet JP, Herbeaux C, Szwaj C, Bielawski S, Malka V, Couprie ME. Tunable High Spatio-Spectral Purity Undulator Radiation from a Transported Laser Plasma Accelerated Electron Beam. Sci Rep 2019; 9:19020. [PMID: 31836730 PMCID: PMC6910930 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-55209-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2019] [Accepted: 10/22/2019] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Undulator based synchrotron light sources and Free Electron Lasers (FELs) are valuable modern probes of matter with high temporal and spatial resolution. Laser Plasma Accelerators (LPAs), delivering GeV electron beams in few centimeters, are good candidates for future compact light sources. However the barriers set by the large energy spread, divergence and shot-to-shot fluctuations require a specific transport line, to shape the electron beam phase space for achieving ultrashort undulator synchrotron radiation suitable for users and even for achieving FEL amplification. Proof-of-principle LPA based undulator emission, with strong electron focusing or transport, does not yet exhibit the full specific radiation properties. We report on the generation of undulator radiation with an LPA beam based manipulation in a dedicated transport line with versatile properties. After evidencing the specific spatio-spectral signature, we tune the resonant wavelength within 200-300 nm by modification of the electron beam energy and the undulator field. We achieve a wavelength stability of 2.6%. We demonstrate that we can control the spatio-spectral purity and spectral brightness by reducing the energy range inside the chicane. We have also observed the second harmonic emission of the undulator.
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- A Ghaith
- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France. .,Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France.
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France.,Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523 - PhLAM - Physique des Lasers Atomes et Molécules, 59000, Lille, France
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- LOA, ENSTA Paris, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 828 Bd des Maréchaux, 91762, Palaiseau Cedex, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France.,Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 761001, Israel
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- NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 98 Rochester St, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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- LOA, ENSTA Paris, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 828 Bd des Maréchaux, 91762, Palaiseau Cedex, France
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- LOA, ENSTA Paris, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 828 Bd des Maréchaux, 91762, Palaiseau Cedex, France.,Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 761001, Israel
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- LOA, ENSTA Paris, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 828 Bd des Maréchaux, 91762, Palaiseau Cedex, France
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- LOA, ENSTA Paris, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 828 Bd des Maréchaux, 91762, Palaiseau Cedex, France
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- LOA, ENSTA Paris, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 828 Bd des Maréchaux, 91762, Palaiseau Cedex, France
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- LOA, ENSTA Paris, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 828 Bd des Maréchaux, 91762, Palaiseau Cedex, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- LOA, ENSTA Paris, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 828 Bd des Maréchaux, 91762, Palaiseau Cedex, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- LOA, ENSTA Paris, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 828 Bd des Maréchaux, 91762, Palaiseau Cedex, France
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523 - PhLAM - Physique des Lasers Atomes et Molécules, 59000, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523 - PhLAM - Physique des Lasers Atomes et Molécules, 59000, Lille, France
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- LOA, ENSTA Paris, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 828 Bd des Maréchaux, 91762, Palaiseau Cedex, France.,Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 761001, Israel
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- Synchrotron-SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192, France.,Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France
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Wang WP, Jiang C, Shen BF, Yuan F, Gan ZM, Zhang H, Zhai SH, Xu ZZ. New Optical Manipulation of Relativistic Vortex Cutter. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 122:024801. [PMID: 30720300 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.024801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
A new relativistic vortex cutter driven by the Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) mode is carried out for the first time in three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. Studies show that the electric fields periodically concentrate and emanate within every laser wavelength for the reflected circularly polarized LG_{p}^{l} (p=0, l=1, σ_{z}=-1) laser, which works just like a vortex cutter, resulting in a relativistic ultrashort collimated electron cluster with a constant period in space. A single particle model is given and verifies that the cluster formation has a close relation with the parameters of orbital angular momentum (l) and spin angular momentum (σ_{z}). Such a relativistic vortex cutter potentially can be applied for the accelerator, generating high-flux particle and coherent radiation sources, and so on.
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- W P Wang
- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
- Department of Physics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
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- Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China
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- Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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