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Coherent acceleration by laser pulse echelons in periodic plasma structures

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We consider a possibilty to use an echelon of mutually coherent laser pulses generated by the emerging CAN (Coherent Amplification Network) technology for direct particle acceleration in periodic plasma structures. We discuss resonant and free streaming configurations. The resonant plasma structures can trap energy of longer laser pulses but are limited to moderate laser intensities of about 1014 W/cm2 and are very sensitive to the structure quality. The free streaming configurations can survive laser intensities above 1018 W/cm2 for several tens of femtoseconds so that sustained accelerating rates well above TeV/m are feasible. In our full electromagnetic relativistic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations we show a test electron bunch gaining up to 200 GeV over a distance of 10.2 cm only.

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  1. University of Dusseldorf, 40225, Dusseldorf, Germany

    A. Pukhov, T. Tückmantel & Ph. Luu-Thanh

  2. University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia

    A. Pukhov, I. Kostyukov & G. Mourou

  3. Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia

    I. Kostyukov

  4. DGAR-IZEST, Ecole Polytechnique, Route de Saclay, 91128, Palaiseau Cedex, France

    G. Mourou

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Pukhov, A., Kostyukov, I., Tückmantel, T. et al. Coherent acceleration by laser pulse echelons in periodic plasma structures. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 223, 1197–1206 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2014-02173-3

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