Tunable synchrotron-like radiation from centimeter scale plasma channels

Min Chen; Ji Luo; Fei-Yu Li; Feng Liu; Zheng-Ming Sheng; Jie Zhang

doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.15

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Tunable synchrotron-like radiation from centimeter scale plasma channels

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- Tunable synchrotron-like radiation from centimeter scale plasma channels
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 5, Issue 1, (2016)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (MOE), Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  2.Collaborative Innovation Center of IFSA (CICIFSA), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  3.SUPA, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, UK
- Author bio：
  
  M Chen, Email: minchen@sjtu.edu.cn
  ZM Sheng, Email: zhengming.sheng@strath.ac.uk
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.15
  CLC：
- Published：2016-03，
  
  Published Online：28 August 2015，
  
  Received：06 April 2015，
  
  Revised：21 August 2015，
  
  Accepted：25 August 2015
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Chen, M. et al. Tunable synchrotron-like radiation from centimeter scale plasma channels. Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16015 (2016).
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Chen, M. et al. Tunable synchrotron-like radiation from centimeter scale plasma channels. Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16015 (2016). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.15.

摘要

Abstract

Synchrotron radiation (SR) sources are immensely useful tools for scientific researches and many practical applications. Currently

the state-of-the-art synchrotrons rely on conventional accelerators

where electrons are accelerated in a straight line and radiate in bending magnets or other insertion devices. However

these facilities are usually large and costly. Here

we study a compact all optical synchrotron-like radiation source based on laser-plasma acceleration either in a straight or a curved plasma channel. With the laser pulse off-axially injected

its centroid oscillates transversely in the plasma channel. This results in a wiggler motion of the whole accelerating structure and the self-trapped electrons behind the laser pulse

leading to strong synchrotron-like radiations with tunable spectra. It is further shown that a palmtop ring-shaped synchrotron is possible with current high power laser technologies. With its potential of high flexibility and tunability

such light sources once realized would find applications in wide areas and make up the shortage of large SR facilities.

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Keywords

laser guidinglaser wakefield accelerationsynchrotron radiation

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