Faraday Rotation Probe of Laser-Plasma Bubble Structures in Petawatt-Driven Wakes

• DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2017.fm2d.5
• Publication Date: 2017-05-08T16:10:12Z
• Authors: Y.Y. Chang; J. M. Shaw; J. Welch; K. Weichman; A. Hannasch; M. LaBerge; W. Henderson; R. Zgadzaj; A. Bernstein; C. Wagner; J. Gordon; M. Martinez; M. Spinks; T. Toncian; G. Dyer; E. Gaul; M. Donovan; T. Ditmire; M. C. Downer
• Keywords: Faraday cage; Faraday cup

We exploited the Faraday effect to imprint polarization shifts on a transverse probe that captured structure of GeV laser-plasma accelerator. Our measurements suggested plasma bubble diameter ≈ 50.8±10.1 μm.