Compact laser wakefield acceleration toward high energy with micro-plasma parabola

Geng Xuesong; Xu Tongjun; Zhang Lingang; Kostyukov Igor; Pukhov Alexander; Shen Baifei; Ji Liangliang

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Geng Xuesong, Xu Tongjun, Zhang Lingang, Kostyukov Igor, Pukhov Alexander, Shen Baifei, Ji Liangliang. Compact laser wakefield acceleration toward high energy with micro-plasma parabola[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2024, 9(6): 067203. doi: 10.1063/5.0202964

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Geng Xuesong, Xu Tongjun, Zhang Lingang, Kostyukov Igor, Pukhov Alexander, Shen Baifei, Ji Liangliang. Compact laser wakefield acceleration toward high energy with micro-plasma parabola[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2024, 9(6): 067203. doi: 10.1063/5.0202964

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Geng Xuesong, Xu Tongjun, Zhang Lingang, Kostyukov Igor, Pukhov Alexander, Shen Baifei, Ji Liangliang. Compact laser wakefield acceleration toward high energy with micro-plasma parabola[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2024, 9(6): 067203. doi: 10.1063/5.0202964

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Compact laser wakefield acceleration toward high energy with micro-plasma parabola

doi: 10.1063/5.0202964

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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 201800, China
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Institut für Theoretische Physik I, Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 40225, Germany
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Institute for Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, 603155 Nizhni Novgorod, Russia
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Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China

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Corresponding author: a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: jill@siom.ac.cn
Received Date: 2024-02-08
Accepted Date: 2024-08-22

Available Online: 2024-11-01

Publish Date: 2024-11-01

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Abstract

Laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) promises compact accelerators toward the high-energy frontier. However, the approach to the 100 GeV milestone faces the obstacle of the long focal length required for optimal acceleration with high-power lasers, which reaches hundreds of meters for 10–100 PW lasers. The long focal length originates from optimal laser intensity required to avoid nonlinear effects and hence large spot size and Rayleigh length. We propose a “telescope” geometry in which a micro-plasma parabola (MPP) is coupled with a short-focal-length off-axis parabola, minimizing the focal length to the meter range for LWFA under optimized conditions driven by lasers beyond 1 PW. Full-dimensional kinetic simulations demonstrate the generation of a 9 GeV electron bunch within only 1 m optical length—only one-tenth of that required with the conventional approach with the same performance. The proposed MPP provides a basis for the construction of compact LWFAs toward single-stage 100 GeV acceleration with 100 PW class lasers.

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Author Contributions
Xuesong Geng: Conceptualization (equal); Funding acquisition (equal); Methodology (equal); Visualization (equal); Writing – original draft (equal). Tongjun Xu: Investigation (supporting). Lingang Zhang: Investigation (supporting). Igor Kostyukov: Writing – review & editing (supporting). Alexander Pukhov: Writing – review & editing (supporting). Baifei Shen: Writing – review & editing (supporting). Liangliang Ji: Conceptualization (equal); Funding acquisition (equal); Supervision (equal); Writing – review & editing (equal).
The data taht support the findings of this study are openly available in Science Data Bank at https://doi.org/10.57760/sciencedb.08335 and can be reproduced using the parameters described in the article.

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