Plasma accelerator-based ultrabright x-ray beams from ultrabright electron beams

Ahmad Fahim Habib; Paul Scherkl; Grace Gloria Manahan; Thomas Heinemann; Daniel Ullmann; Andrew Sutherland; Alexander Knetsch; Michael Litos; Mark Hogan; James Rosenzweig; Bernhard Hidding

doi:10.1117/12.2530976

9 September 2019 Plasma accelerator-based ultrabright x-ray beams from ultrabright electron beams

Ahmad Fahim Habib, Paul Scherkl, Grace Gloria Manahan, Thomas Heinemann, Daniel Ullmann, Andrew Sutherland, Alexander Knetsch, Michael Litos, Mark Hogan, James Rosenzweig, Bernhard Hidding

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Proceedings Volume 11110, Advances in Laboratory-based X-Ray Sources, Optics, and Applications VII; 111100A (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2530976
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2019, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We provide a pathway to compact ultrabright light sources, based on ultrabright, high energy electron beams emerging from a combination of plasma Wakefield acceleration and plasma photocathodes. While plasma acceleration is known to produce accelerating fields three or four orders of magnitude larger than conventional accelerators, the plasma photocathode allows production of electron beams three or four orders of magnitude brighter than conventional, and thus is suitable to unleash the full potential of plasma accelerators. In particular, this is the case for various types of light sources, which profit enormously from an increased electron beam brightness. Building on the recent first experimental demonstration of the plasma photocathode, in this work we discuss the prospects of plasma photocathodes for key photon source approaches such as x-ray free-electron lasers, betatron radiation, ion-channel lasers and inverse Compton scattering.

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Ahmad Fahim Habib, Paul Scherkl, Grace Gloria Manahan, Thomas Heinemann, Daniel Ullmann, Andrew Sutherland, Alexander Knetsch, Michael Litos, Mark Hogan, James Rosenzweig, and Bernhard Hidding "Plasma accelerator-based ultrabright x-ray beams from ultrabright electron beams", Proc. SPIE 11110, Advances in Laboratory-based X-Ray Sources, Optics, and Applications VII, 111100A (9 September 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2530976

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