Compact laser wakefield acceleration toward high energy with micro-plasma parabola

Xuesong Geng; Tongjun Xu; Lingang Zhang; Igor Kostyukov; Alexander Pukhov; Baifei Shen; Liangliang Ji

doi:10.1063/5.0202964

Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Volume. 9, Issue 6, 067203(2024)

Compact laser wakefield acceleration toward high energy with micro-plasma parabola

Xuesong Geng¹, Tongjun Xu¹, Lingang Zhang¹, Igor Kostyukov², Alexander Pukhov³, Baifei Shen⁴, and Liangliang Ji^1、a)

¹State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-Intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai 201800, China

²Institut für Theoretische Physik I, Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 40225, Germany

³Institute for Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, 603155 Nizhni Novgorod, Russia

⁴Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China

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Received: Feb. 8, 2024

Accepted: Aug. 22, 2024

Published Online: Jan. 8, 2025

The Author Email: Liangliang Ji (jill@siom.ac.cn)

DOI:10.1063/5.0202964

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