Laser Wakefield Acceleration

Presentations

• Ultra-low-emittance electron bunches from a laser-plasma accelerator measured using single shot X-ray spectroscopy

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2011, 2:00 PM – Nov. 14, 2011, 2:12 PM

  Authors

  • Cameron Geddes

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL
    • Lawrence Berkeley Lab

  • G.R. Plateau

    • LBNL

  • M. Chen

    • LBNL

  • Carlo Benedetti

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL

  • Eric Esarey

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL
    • Lawrence Berkeley Lab

  • A.J. Gonsalves

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL

  • N.H. Matlis

    • LBNL

  • K. Nakamura

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL

  • Carl Schroeder

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL

  • S. Shiraishi

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL

  • T. Sokolik

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL

  • J. van Tilborg

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL

  • Cs. Toth

    • LBNL

  • T.S. Kim

    • LBNL

  • M. Battaglia

    • LBNL

  • Wim Leemans

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL

  • D.B. Thorn

    • EMMI Darmstadt

  • Th. Stoehlker

    • EMMI Darmstadt

  • S. Trotsenko

    • Helmholtz Jena

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• Observation of long range coherent OTR from LPA electron beams

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2011, 2:12 PM – Nov. 14, 2011, 2:24 PM

  Authors

  • Jeroen van Tilborg

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Chen Lin

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Kei Nakamura

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL

  • Anthony Gonsalves

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Nicholas Matlis

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Thomas Sokollik

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Satomi Shiraishi

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • C.B. Schroeder

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LOASIS program, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • C. Benedetti

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LOASIS program, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Eric Esarey

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • W.P. Leemans

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LOASIS program, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  Nov. 14, 2011, 2:24 PM – Nov. 14, 2011, 2:36 PM

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• Tunable Laser Plasma Accelerator based on Longitudinal Density Tailoring

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2011, 2:36 PM – Nov. 14, 2011, 2:48 PM

  Authors

  • A.J. Gonsalves

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL

  • K. Nakamura

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL

  • Chen Lin

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Dmitriy Panasenko

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • S. Shiraishi

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL

  • T. Sokolik

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL

  • Carlo Benedetti

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL

  • Carl Schroeder

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL

  • Cameron Geddes

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL
    • Lawrence Berkeley Lab

  • J. van Tilborg

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL

  • Eric Esarey

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL
    • Lawrence Berkeley Lab

  • Csaba Toth

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Wim Leemans

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL

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• Acceleration and radiation processes in controlled gradient gas jets

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2011, 2:48 PM – Nov. 14, 2011, 3:00 PM

  Authors

  • Dmitri Kaganovich

    • Plasma Phys. Div., Naval Research Laboratory
    • NRL
    • Naval Research Laboratory

  • Mike Helle

    • Naval Research Laboratory

  • Daniel Gordon

    • Plasma Phys. Div., Naval Research Laboratory
    • NRL
    • Plasma Physcs Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC
    • Naval Research Laboratory

  • Frank Xie

    • RSI, Lanham, MD

  • Antonio Ting

    • Naval Research Laboratory

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• Electron Injection and Acceleration with Petawatt Laser Driven Wakefield Accelerator in 10$^{17}$cm$^{-3}$ Plasma

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2011, 3:00 PM – Nov. 14, 2011, 3:12 PM

  Authors

  • T. Ditmire

  • X. Wang

  • R. Zgadzaj

  • W. Henderson

  • S.A. Yi

  • S. Kalmykov

  • V. Khudik

  • P. Dong

  • N. Fazel

  • R. Korzekwa

  • Y.-Y. Chang

  • H.-E. Tsai

  • G. Dyer

  • E. Gaul

  • M. Martinez

  • M. Donovan

  • A. Bernstein

  • G. Shvets

  • M.C. Downer

    • Dept of Physics UT Austin

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• Frequency-Domain Tomography for Single-shot, Ultrafast Imaging of Evolving Laser-Plasma Accelerators

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2011, 3:12 PM – Nov. 14, 2011, 3:24 PM

  Authors

  • Zhengyan Li

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Rafal Zgadzaj

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Xiaoming Wang

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Michael Downer

    • University of Texas at Austin

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• Studies of Spectral Modification and Limitations of the Modified Paraxial Equation in Laser Wakefield Simulations

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2011, 3:24 PM – Nov. 14, 2011, 3:36 PM

  Authors

  • Wenxi Zhu

  • John Palastro

    • University of Maryland
    • IREAP, University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • University of Maryland, College Park, MD

  • Thomas Antonsen

    • University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • University of Maryland, College Park, MD

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• Recent modifications to WAKE and effect of plasma temperature on energy gain and spread in plasma wake field acceleration

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2011, 3:36 PM – Nov. 14, 2011, 3:48 PM

  Authors

  • Neeraj Jain

    • University of Maryland, College Park, MD

  • John Palastro

    • University of Maryland
    • IREAP, University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • University of Maryland, College Park, MD

  • Thomas Antonsen

    • University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • University of Maryland, College Park, MD

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• Trapping of Low Energy Electrons in Direct Laser Acceleration

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2011, 3:48 PM – Nov. 14, 2011, 4:00 PM

  Authors

  • Sung Jun Yoon

    • University of Maryland, College Park

  • John Palastro

    • University of Maryland
    • IREAP, University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • University of Maryland, College Park, MD

  • Daniel Gordon

    • Plasma Phys. Div., Naval Research Laboratory
    • NRL
    • Plasma Physcs Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC
    • Naval Research Laboratory

  • Howard Milchberg

    • IREAP, University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • University of Maryland

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• Electron generation from a high repetition rate LWFA in the relativistic lambda-cubed regime

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2011, 4:00 PM – Nov. 14, 2011, 4:12 PM

  Authors

  • Zhaohan He

    • Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2099, USA

  • Bixue Hou

    • Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2099, USA

  • James Easter

    • Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2099, USA

  • Karl Krushelnick

    • Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2099, USA
    • University of Michigan

  • John Nees

    • Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2099, USA

  • Alec Thomas

    • University of Michigan, Center for Ultrafast Optical Sciences
    • University of Michigan - Center for Ultrafast Optical Sciences
    • University of Michigan
    • Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2099, USA

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• Laser Wakefield Acceleration of Quasimonoenergetic Electron Beams in Pure Nitrogen Gas Jets

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2011, 4:12 PM – Nov. 14, 2011, 4:24 PM

  Authors

  • M.Z. Mo

    • Univ. of Alberta, Canada

  • A. Ali

    • Univ. of Alberta, Canada

  • Sylvain Fourmaux

    • INRS-EMT, Canada
    • INRS-EMT

  • P. Lassonde

    • INRS-EMT, Canada

  • Jean Claude Kieffer

    • INRS-EMT, Canada
    • INRS-EMT

  • R. Fedosejevs

    • U of A
    • U of Alberta
    • University of Alberta
    • Univ. of Alberta, Canada

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• Optical nonlinearity in Ar and N$_{2}$ near the ionization threshold

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2011, 4:24 PM – Nov. 14, 2011, 4:36 PM

  Authors

  • J.K. Wahlstrand

    • University of Maryland

  • Y.-H. Cheng

    • University of Maryland

  • Y.-H. Chen

    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • University of Maryland

  • Howard Milchberg

    • IREAP, University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • University of Maryland

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• Direct measurement of the plasma density of a femtosecond laser induced-filament in air

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2011, 4:36 PM – Nov. 14, 2011, 4:48 PM

  Authors

  • Y.-H. Chen

    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • University of Maryland

  • Sanjay Varma

    • IREAP, University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland, College Park

  • Thomas Antonsen

    • University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • University of Maryland, College Park, MD

  • Howard Milchberg

    • IREAP, University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • University of Maryland

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• High Power Laser Self-Guiding in Mixed Gases

  ORAL

  Nov. 14, 2011, 4:48 PM – Nov. 14, 2011, 5:00 PM

  Authors

  • Bradley Pollock

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Joseph Ralph

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • Lawrence Livermore National Lab

  • Molly Beckler

    • University of the Pacific

  • Felicie Albert

    • LLNL
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, NIF and Photon Science
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Art Pak

    • Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave., Livermore, California 94550
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Andreas Kemp

    • LLNL
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Siegfried Glenzer

    • LLNL
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • Lawrence Livermore National Lab

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