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Phase-locked laser-wakefield electron acceleration
Subluminal and superluminal light pulses have attracted considerable attention in recent decades1–4, opening perspectives in telecommunications, optical storage and fundamental physics5. Usually achieved in matte...
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Open AccessTunable High Spatio-Spectral Purity Undulator Radiation from a Transported Laser Plasma Accelerated Electron Beam
Undulator based synchrotron light sources and Free Electron Lasers (FELs) are valuable modern probes of matter with high temporal and spatial resolution. Laser Plasma Accelerators (LPAs), delivering GeV electr...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Control of laser plasma accelerated electrons for light sources
The original version of this Article contained an error in the last sentence of the first paragraph of the Introduction and incorrectly read ‘A proper electron beam control is one of the main challenges toward...
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Open AccessControl of laser plasma accelerated electrons for light sources
With gigaelectron-volts per centimetre energy gains and femtosecond electron beams, laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) is a promising candidate for applications, such as ultrafast electron diffraction, multis...
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Open AccessStable multi-GeV electron accelerator driven by waveform-controlled PW laser pulses
The achievable energy and the stability of accelerated electron beams have been the most critical issues in laser wakefield acceleration. As laser propagation, plasma wave formation and electron acceleration a...
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Table-top femtosecond soft X-ray laser by collisional ionization gating
An improved table-top femtosecond soft X-ray laser with a gain duration of 450 fs is reported.
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Open AccessShock assisted ionization injection in laser-plasma accelerators
Ionization injection is a simple and efficient method to trap an electron beam in a laser plasma accelerator. Yet, because of a long injection length, this injection technique leads generally to the production...
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Open AccessDemonstration of relativistic electron beam focusing by a laser-plasma lens
Laser-plasma technology promises a drastic reduction of the size of high-energy electron accelerators. It could make free-electron lasers available to a broad scientific community and push further the limits o...
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An ultracompact X-ray source based on a laser-plasma undulator
The capability of plasmas to sustain ultrahigh electric fields has attracted considerable interest over the last decades and has given rise to laser-plasma engineering. Today, plasmas are commonly used for acc...
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The LUNEX5 Project in France
LUNEX5 (free electron Laser Using a New accelerator for the Exploitation of X-ray radiation of 5th generation) aims at investigating the production of short, intense, and coherent pulses in the soft x-ray regi...
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Observation of longitudinal and transverse self-injections in laser-plasma accelerators
Laser-plasma accelerators can produce high-quality electron beams, up to giga electronvolts in energy, from a centimetre scale device. The properties of the electron beams and the accelerator stability are lar...
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All-optical Compton gamma-ray source
One of the major goals of research for laser-plasma accelerators1 is the realization of compact sources of femtosecond X-rays2,3,4. In particular, using the modest electron energies obtained with existing laser s...
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Enhanced ion acceleration with extremely thin foils
Enhanced backward-acceleration of ions is experimentally observed when ultra-short, high-intensity and ultra-high-contrast laser pulses interact with thin foils having thicknesses in the order of the penetrati...
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High-order harmonic generation from plasma mirrors
We discuss the two mechanisms involved in high-order harmonic generation from plasma mirrors, and show that they can be clearly identified experimentally. The very different phase properties of the correspondi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Probing the dynamics of plasma mirrors on the attosecond time scale
We demonstrate that the generation of high-order harmonics (HHG) of a laser on plasma mirrors preserves the coherence of the laser. We then exploit this coherence to study the dynamics of the plasma electrons.
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Coherent dynamics of plasma mirrors
Emission coherence is crucial to the potential of future X-ray sources based on high-order harmonic generation from laser-driven plasmas. Contrary to expectations, coherent emission is possible, but only if th...
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Plasma mirrors for ultrahigh-intensity optics
Specular reflection is one of the most fundamental processes of optics. At moderate light intensities generated by conventional light sources this process is well understood. But at those capable of being prod...
