Ultrashort high energy electron bunches from tunable surface plasma waves driven with laser wavefront rotation

Year: 2021

Authors: Marini S., Kleij P. S., Pisani F., Amiranoff F., Grech M., Macchi A., Raynaud M., Riconda C.

Autors Affiliation: Inst Polytech Paris, Ecole Polytech, CNRS, CEA DRF IRAMIS,LSI, F-91128 Palaiseau, France; Sorbonne Univ, CNRS, CEA, LULI,Ecole Polytech,Inst Polytech Paris, F-75252 Paris, France; Univ Pisa, Enrico Fermi Dept Phys, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy; Natl Res Council CNR INO, Natl Inst Opt, Adriano Gozzini Lab, I-56124 Pisa, Italy.

Abstract: We propose to use ultrahigh intensity laser pulses with wave-front rotation (WFR) to produce short, ultraintense surface plasma waves (SPW) on grating targets for electron acceleration. Combining a smart grating design with optimal WFR conditions identified through simple analytical modeling and particle-in-cell simulation allows us to decrease the SPW duration (down to a few optical cycles) and increase its peak amplitude. In the relativistic regime, for Iλ20=3.4×1019W/cm2μm2, such SPW are found to accelerate high charge (few 10 s of pC), high energy (up to 70 MeV), and ultrashort (few fs) electron bunches.

Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Volume: 103 (2)      Pages from: L021201-1  to: L021201-5

More Information: Financial support from Grant No. ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02 Plas@Par is acknowledged. Simulations were performed on the Irene-SKL machine hosted at TGCC-France, using High Performance Computing resources from GENCITGCC (Grant No. 2018-x2016057678) and PRACE (Project MIMOSAS). P.S.K. was supported by the CEA NUMERICS program, which has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant agreement No. 800945.
KeyWords: plasmonics, high field plasmonics, high field photonics, electron acceleration, surface waves, laser-plasma interactions
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.103.L021201

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