ArticleScientific reports2016
Effect of experimental laser imperfections on laser wakefield acceleration and betatron source.
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- High average-flux laser-driven neutron source.Nature communications · 2025Article
- High-brightness betatron emission from the interaction of a sub picosecond laser pulse with pre-ionized low-density polymer foam for ICF research.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Stabilization and correction of aberrated laser beams via plasma channelling.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Notable improvements on LWFA through precise laser wavefront tuning.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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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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