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We enhanced the total transmission of light through a disordered waveguide with spatially inhomogeneous scattering and loss by shaping the incident wavefront of a laser beam. Using an on-chip tapered lead, we were able to access all input…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-20 Raktim Sarma , Alexey Yamilov , Hui Cao

Betatron x-ray sources from laser-plasma accelerators combine compactness, high peak brightness, femtosecond pulse duration and broadband spectrum. However, when produced with Terawatt class lasers, their energy was so far restricted to a…

A century ago, J. J. Thomson showed that the scattering of low-intensity light by electrons was a linear process (i.e., the scattered light frequency was identical to that of the incident light) and that light's magnetic field played no…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-31 Szu-yuan Chen , Anatoly Maksimchuk , Donald Umstadter

The measurement of shifts in the energy of X-ray emission lines is important for understanding the electronic structure and physical properties of materials. In this study, we demonstrate a method using a synchrotron source to introduce…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-19 Tejas Guruswamy , Orlando Quaranta , Lisa Gades , Umeshkumar Patel , Antonino Miceli

The inverse Compton scattering of laser light on high-energetic twisted electrons is investigated with the aim to construct spatially structured x-ray beams. In particular, we analyze how the properties of the twisted electrons, such as the…

Optics · Physics 2014-08-04 D. Seipt , A. Surzhykov , S. Fritzsche

The radiation emission from electrons wiggling in a laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) process, being initially considered as a parasitic effect for the electron energy gain, can eventually serve as a novel X-ray source, that could be used…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Erik Wallin , Arkady Gonoskov , Mattias Marklund

We generate inverse Compton scattered X-rays in both linear and nonlinear regimes with a 250 MeV laser wakefield electron accelerator and plasma mirror by retro-reflecting the unused drive laser light to scatter from the accelerated…

Collision between relativistic electron sheets and counter-propagating laser pulses is recognized as a promising way to produce intense attosecond X-rays through coherent Thomson backscattering (TBS). In a double-layer scheme, the electrons…

Positron acceleration in plasma wakefield faces significant challenges since the positron beam must be pre-generated and precisely coupled into the wakefield, and most critically, suffers from defocusing issues. Here we propose a scheme…

The generation of laser-driven dense relativistic electron layers from ultra-thin foils and their use for coherent Thomson backscattering is discussed, applying analytic theory and one-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation. The blow-out…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn , Hui-Chun Wu

The Thomson backscattering of an electron moving in combined fields is studied by a dynamically assisted mechanism. The combined fields are composed of two co-propagating laser fields and a magnetic field, where the first laser field is…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-07 Zhijing Chen , Li Zhao , Chun Jiang , Haibo Sang , Bai-Song Xie

A new parameter regime of laser wakefield acceleration driven by sub-petawatt femotsecond lasers is proposed, which enables the generation of relativistic electron mirrors further accelerated by the plasma wave. Integrated particle-in-cell…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 F. Y. Li , Z. M. Sheng , M. Chen , H. C. Wu , Y. Liu , J. Meyer-ter-Vehn , W. B. Mori , J. Zhang

The electron and positron acceleration in the first cycle of a laser-driven wakefield is investigated. Separatrices between different types of the particle motion (confined, reflected by the wakefield or ponderomotive potential and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Esirkepov , S. V. Bulanov , M. Yamagiwa , T. Tajima

Each successive generation of x-ray machines has opened up new frontiers in science, such as the first radiographs and the determination of the structure of DNA. State-of-the-art x-ray sources can now produce coherent high brightness keV…

The influence of the laser pulse temporal shape on the Nonlinear Thomson Scattering on-axis photon spectrum is analyzed in detail. Using the classical description, analytical expressions for the temporal and spectral structure of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 Vasily Kharin , Daniel Seipt , Sergey Rykovanov

Betatron X-ray radiation in laser-plasma accelerators is produced when electrons are accelerated and wiggled in the laser-wakefield cavity. This femtosecond source, producing intense X-ray beams in the multi kiloelectronvolt range has been…

Energetic spin-polarized positrons are extremely demanded for forefront researches, such as $e^- e^+$ collider physics, but making compact positron sources is still very challenging. Here we put forward an efficient scheme of trapping and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Wei-Yuan Liu , Kun Xue , Feng Wan , Min Chen , Jian-Xing Li , Feng Liu , Su-Ming Weng , Zheng-Ming Sheng , Jie Zhang

Betatron x-ray source from laser plasma interaction combines high brightness, few femtosecond duration and broad band energy spectrum. However, despite these unique features the Betatron source has a crippling drawback preventing its use…

Measurements of polarized electron-nucleon scattering can be realized at the TESLA linear collider facility with projected luminosities that are about two orders of magnitude higher than those expected of other experiments at comparable…

We consider the Thomson scattering of an electron in an ultra-intense chirped laser pulse. It is found that the introduction of a negative chirp means the electron enters a high frequency region of the field while it still has a large…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Amol R. Holkundkar , Chris Harvey , Mattias Marklund