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Increasing energy coupling into plasma waves by tailoring the laser radial focal spot distribution in a laser wakefield accelerator

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Summary, in English

By controlling the focal spot quality with a deformable mirror, we are able to show that increasing the fraction of pulse energy contained within the central part of the focal spot, while keeping the total energy and central spot size constant, significantly increases the amount of energy transferred to the wakefield: Our measurements show that the laser loses significantly more laser energy and undergoes greater redshifting and that more charge is produced in the accelerated beam. Three dimensional particle in cell simulations performed with accurate representations of the measured focal spot intensity distribution confirm that energy in the wings of the focal spot is effectively wasted. Even though self-focusing occurs, energy in the wings of the focal spot distribution is not coupled into the wakefield, emphasising the vital importance of high quality focal spot profiles in experiments. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Physics of Plasmas

Volym

20

Issue

6

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Ämne

  • Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1070-664X