Dephasingless Laser Wakefield Acceleration in the Bubble Regime

• DOI: 10.1364/cleo_at.2024.ath3h.4
• Publication Date: 2024-12-16T14:04:33Z
• Authors: Kyle G. Miller; Jacob R. Pierce; Manfred V. Ambat; Jessica L. Shaw; Kale Weichman; Warren B. Mori; Dustin H. Froula; John P. Palastro
• Keywords: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph); Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); Science; Q; R; Medicine; FOS: Physical sciences; Physics - Accelerator Physics; Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); 7. Clean energy; Physics - Computational Physics; Physics - Plasma Physics; Article

An ultrashort flying-focus pulse created by an axiparabola and radial echelon drives a dephasingless laser wakefield accelerator in the bubble regime. Simulations show that 25 pC of ionization-injected electrons gain 2.1 GeV over 20 dephasing lengths (1.3 cm), with projected energy gains of 125 GeV over <1 m.