High Efficiency Laser Wakefield Acceleration
Analysis
Key Takeaways
- •Demonstrates a two-step dechirping process using short-pulse lasers.
- •Achieves energy transfer efficiencies of 10-30% with low energy spread.
- •Produces electron beams with energy spreads as low as 1%.
- •Provides an example of generating a 420MeV, 5.5nC beam with 2% energy spread using an 8.3J, 7.2fs laser pulse.
“Electron beams with an energy spread of 1% can be generated with the energy transfer efficiency of 10% to 30% in a large parameter space.”