Cowley, J., Thornton, C., Arran, C. orcid.org/0000-0002-8644-8118 et al. (9 more authors) (2017) Excitation and Control of Plasma Wakefields by Multiple Laser Pulses. Physical Review Letters. 044802. ISSN 1079-7114
Abstract
We demonstrate experimentally the resonant excitation of plasma waves by trains of laser pulses. We also take an important first step to achieving an energy recovery plasma accelerator by showing that a plasma wave can be damped by an out-of-resonance trailing laser pulse. The measured laser wakefields are found to be in excellent agreement with analytical and numerical models of wakefield excitation in the linear regime. Our results indicate a promising direction for achieving highly controlled, GeV-scale laser-plasma accelerators operating at multikilohertz repetition rates.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 American Physical Society. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Physics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 26 Mar 2020 12:00 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2025 17:46 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.044802 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.044802 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:158790 |
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