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Laser wakefield compression and acceleration of externally injected electron bunches in guiding structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2013

N. E. ANDREEV ,
V. E. BARANOV ,
B. CROS ,
G. MAYNARD ,
P. MORA  and
M. E. VEYSMAN
N. E. ANDREEV
Affiliation:
Joint Institute for High Temperatures of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia ([email protected]) Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Moscow, Russia
V. E. BARANOV
Affiliation:
Joint Institute for High Temperatures of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia ([email protected])
B. CROS
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas, CNRS-Universite Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France
G. MAYNARD
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas, CNRS-Universite Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France
P. MORA
Affiliation:
Centre de Physique Theorique, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France
M. E. VEYSMAN
Affiliation:
Joint Institute for High Temperatures of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia ([email protected])
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Abstract

For the considered scheme of the external electron bunch injection in front of a laser pulse, the influence of the nonlinear driving laser pulse dynamics and electron bunch self-action to the processes of electron bunch compression and acceleration in the laser wakefield is analyzed. Self-consistent modelling results confirm that the nonlinear laser pulse dynamics limits the bunch compression due to variations of the phase velocity of the wake. A growth of the injected bunch charge leads to some extent to an increase of the trapped and accelerated bunch charge and to decrease of the trapped bunch radius and emittance due to increased self-focusing bunch. The three-dimensional theoretical model is elaborated and used to describe the propagation of laser pulses in dielectric capillary waveguides under imperfect coupling and focusing conditions with broken cylindrical symmetry. The role of cone entrances to the cylindrical part of a capillary is analyzed, and it is demonstrated that matching cones can considerably increase the transmission of laser pulses through the capillary, but cannot mitigate the requirements on the precision of the laser pulse focusing into a capillary. In order to avoid a speckle structure and strong transverse gradients of the fields, which can prevent the process of regular electron bunch acceleration, one has to ensure a small laser angle of incidence into the capillary not exceeding 1 mrad.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 79 , Issue 2 , April 2013 , pp. 143 - 152
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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