Effect of experimental laser imperfections on laser wakefield acceleration and betatron source

J Ferri 1, 2 X Davoine 1 S Fourmaux 3 J C Kieffer 3 Sébastien Corde 2 Kim Ta Phuoc 2 Agustin Lifschitz 2
1 DAM/DIF - DAM Île-de-France
2 LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée
3 EMT-INRS - Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications - INRS
Abstract : Laser pulses in current ultra-short TW systems are far from being ideal Gaussian beams. The influence of the presence of non-Gaussian features of the laser pulse is investigated here from experiments and 3D Particle-in-Cell simulations. Both the experimental intensity distribution and wavefront are used as input in the simulations. It is shown that a quantitative agreement between experimental data and simulations requires to use realistic pulse features. Moreover, some trends found in the experiments, such as the growing of the X-ray signal with the plasma length, can only be retrieved in simulations with realistic pulses. The performances on the electron acceleration and the synchrotron X-ray emission are strongly degraded by these non-Gaussian features, even keeping constant the total laser energy. A drop on the X-ray photon number by one order of magnitude was found. This clearly put forward the limitation of using a Gaussian beam in the simulations.
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Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, 2016, 6, pp.27846. 〈10.1038/srep27846〉
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J Ferri, X Davoine, S Fourmaux, J C Kieffer, Sébastien Corde, et al.. Effect of experimental laser imperfections on laser wakefield acceleration and betatron source. Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, 2016, 6, pp.27846. 〈10.1038/srep27846〉. 〈hal-01337403〉

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