Improvement of the Quality and Stability of Electron Bunch Using Countercrossing Laser Beam

Author

Kotaki, Hideyuki ; Daito, Izuru ; Kando, Masaki ; Hayashi, Yukio ; Ma, Jinglong ; Chen, Liming-M ; Esirkepov, Timur Zh ; Fukuda, Yuji ; Homma, Takayuki ; Pirozhkov, Alexander ; Koga, James K. ; Nakajima, Kazuhisa ; Daido, Hiroyuki ; Bulanov, Sergei V.

Author_Institution

Adv. Photon Res. Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kyoto

Volume

36

Issue

4

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1760

Lastpage

1764

Abstract

We demonstrate a highly reproducible acceleration of a high-quality electron bunch injected into the laser wake field accelerator with the help of a countercrossing laser pulse. In our experiments, the wake field is generated by a subrelativistic laser pulse; the second laser pulse collides with the first pulse at 135 , realizing optical injection of electron bunch into the wake field. Because the second pulse is countercrossing, it cannot damage the laser system. The observed electron bunch has the energy of 14 MeV with an 11% (1.5 MeV) spread, the total charge of 22 pC, and a reproducibility of at least 50%.

Keywords

electron accelerators; electron beams; laser beams; particle beam bunching; particle beam injection; particle beam stability; wakefield accelerators; countercrossing laser beam; electron bunch injection; electron bunch stability; laser wake field accelerator; optical injection; subrelativistic laser pulse; Acceleration; Colliding beam accelerators; Electron accelerators; Electron beams; Electron optics; Laser beams; Laser stability; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Reproducibility of results; Countercrossing optical injection; laser wake field accelerator (LWFA); monoenergetic electron bunch;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-3813

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPS.2008.927944

Filename

4599030