Speaker
Scott Hancock
(Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland College Park)
Description
We present results using structured light pulses for longitudinal shaping of plasma waveguides for laser wakefield acceleration. Diffractive optics techniques are combined with traditional refractive or reflective axicons to sculpt and tune waveguides, generating features such as funnel mouths, axial nulls and inward directed shocks. Here we show how to combine and expand the tunability of these techniques.
| Working group | WG1 |
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Author
Scott Hancock
(Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland College Park)
Co-authors
Ari Sloss
(University of Maryland, College Park)
Ela Rockafellow
(University of Maryland)
Howard M. Milchberg
(University of Maryland)
Jaron Shrock
(University of Maryland, College Park)
Nishchal Tripathi
(University of Maryland)