Search Results - "Thaury, Cedric"
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Hard X Rays from Laser-Wakefield Accelerators in Density Tailored Plasmas
Published in Physical review. X (01-03-2020)“…Betatron x-ray sources from laser-plasma accelerators reproduce the principle of a synchrotron at the millimeter scale. They combine compactness, femtosecond…”
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Controlled acceleration of GeV electron beams in an all-optical plasma waveguide
Published in Light, science & applications (14-06-2022)“…Laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) produce electric fields of the order of 100 GV m −1 , more than 1000 times larger than those produced by radio-frequency…”
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Spatio-temporal couplings for controlling group velocity in longitudinally pumped seeded soft X-ray lasers
Published in Nature photonics (01-04-2023)“…Controlling the group velocity of an ultrashort laser pulse by means of spatio-temporal couplings has been proposed to overcome the inherent limitations in…”
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Seeded free-electron laser driven by a compact laser plasma accelerator
Published in Nature photonics (01-02-2023)“…Free-electron lasers generate high-brilliance coherent radiation at wavelengths spanning from the infrared to the X-ray domains. The recent development of…”
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Survey of spatio-temporal couplings throughout high-power ultrashort lasers
Published in Optics express (31-01-2022)“…The investigation of spatio-temporal couplings (STCs) of broadband light beams is becoming a key topic for the optimization as well as applications of…”
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Stable femtosecond X-rays with tunable polarization from a laser-driven accelerator
Published in Light, science & applications (01-11-2017)“…Technology based on high-peak-power lasers has the potential to provide compact and intense radiation sources for a wide range of innovative applications. In…”
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Skew Quadrupole Effect of Laser Plasma Electron Beam Transport
Published in Applied sciences (01-06-2019)“…Laser plasma acceleration (LPA) capable of providing femtosecond and GeV electron beams in cm scale distances brings a high interest for different…”
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Hard X Rays from Laser-Wakefield Accelerators in Density Tailored Plasmas
Published in Physical review. X (11-03-2020)“…Betatron x-ray sources from laser-plasma accelerators reproduce the principle of a synchrotron at the millimeter scale. They combine compactness, femtosecond…”
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All-optical Compton gamma-ray source
Published in Nature photonics (01-05-2012)“…One of the major goals of research for laser-plasma accelerators 1 is the realization of compact sources of femtosecond X-rays 2 , 3 , 4 . In particular, using…”
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Use of spatiotemporal couplings and an axiparabola to control axial energy deposition velocity
Published 25-06-2023“…Optics Letters 2024 This paper presents the first experimental realization of a scheme that allows for the tuning of the axial energy deposition velocity of a…”
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Optical transverse injection in laser-plasma acceleration
Published in Physical review letters (23-08-2013)“…Laser-wakefield acceleration constitutes a promising technology for future electron accelerators. A crucial step in such an accelerator is the injection of…”
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First Electrons from Axiparabola-Based LWFA
Published in 2024 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) (05-05-2024)“…We present the first acceleration of electrons by an axiparabola-focused wake-field. This proof-of-concept experiment strengthens the argument for an…”
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Shock assisted ionization injection in laser-plasma accelerators
Published in Scientific reports (09-11-2015)“…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…”
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Observation of longitudinal and transverse self-injections in laser-plasma accelerators
Published in Nature communications (19-02-2013)“…Laser-plasma accelerators can produce high-quality electron beams, up to giga electronvolts in energy, from a centimetre scale device. The properties of the…”
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Electron Rephasing in a Laser-Wakefield Accelerator
Published in Physical review letters (09-10-2015)“…An important limit for energy gain in laser-plasma wakefield accelerators is the dephasing length, after which the electron beam reaches the decelerating…”
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Plasma mirrors for ultrahigh-intensity optics
Published in Nature physics (01-06-2007)“…Specular reflection is one of the most fundamental processes of optics. At moderate light intensities generated by conventional light sources this process is…”
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An ultracompact X-ray source based on a laser-plasma undulator
Published in Nature communications (22-08-2014)“…The capability of plasmas to sustain ultrahigh electric fields has attracted considerable interest over the last decades and has given rise to laser-plasma…”
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Demonstration of relativistic electron beam focusing by a laser-plasma lens
Published in Nature communications (16-04-2015)“…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…”
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Numerical growth of emittance in simulations of laser-wakefield acceleration
Published in Physical review special topics. PRST-AB. Accelerators and beams (01-02-2013)“…Transverse emittance is a crucial feature of laser-wakefield accelerators, yet accurately reproducing its value in numerical simulations remains challenging…”
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Coherent wake emission of high-order harmonics from overdense plasmas
Published in Physical review letters (31-03-2006)“…We present a new mechanism for high-order harmonic generation by reflection of a laser beam from an overdense plasma, efficient even at moderate laser…”
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