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Improvement of the quality and stability of electron bunch using countercrossing laser beam

Kotaki, Hideyuki; Daito, Izuru; Kando, Masaki; Hayashi, Yukio; Ma, J.-L.; Chen, L.-M.; Esirkepov, T. Z.; Fukuda, Yuji; Homma, Takayuki; Pirozhkov, A. S.; et al.

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 36(4), p.1760 - 1764, 2008/08

 Times Cited Count:9 Percentile:35.34(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)

The counter-crossing injection, which is a realistic setup for applications, by two sub-relativistic laser pulses colliding is demonstrated in sub-relativistic intensity laser pulse interaction with plasma. The laser pulses in plasma are self-focused to higher intensity when the laser power is above the threshold of a relativistic self-focusing. The collision of self-focused laser pulses generates a high-quality electron beam with high repeatability. The generated monoenergetic electron beam has 14 MeV of the peak energy, 11% of the energy spread, 22 pC of the charge, 1.6$$pi$$mm mrad of the normalized emittance, and 50% of the repeatability.

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Counter-crossing injection for stable high-quality electron beam generation via laser-plasma interaction

Kotaki, Hideyuki; Daito, Izuru; Hayashi, Yukio; Ma, J.-L.; Chen, L.-M.; Kando, Masaki; Esirkepov, T. Z.; Fukuda, Yuji; Homma, Takayuki; Pirozhkov, A. S.; et al.

Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 112(4), p.042031_1 - 042031_4, 2008/00

 Times Cited Count:1 Percentile:55.21(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)

Laser-driven plasma accelerators have been conceived to be the next-generation particle accelerators, promising ultrahigh field particle acceleration with a very short duration electron beam. In the case of electron beam generation by using one laser pulse via wavebreaking, however, it is not stable. In order to generate a stable high-quality electron beam, optical injection by collision of two laser pulses is proposed. Recently, the electron generation with this approach was demonstrated. The experiment was carried out by the perfect head-on collision, which has problems to the backward laser light and the extraction of the generated electron beam. The counter-crossing injection, which is a realistic setup for applications, by two sub-relativistic laser pulses collision with the colliding angle of 45$$^{circ}$$ is demonstrated. The collision of two laser pulses generates a high-quality electron beam with high repeatability. The generated monoenergetic electron beam has 14.4 MeV of the peak energy, 10.6% of the energy spread, 21.8 pC of the charge, 1.6 $$pi$$ mm mrad of the normalized emittance, and 47.4% of the repeatability.

Journal Articles

Elongation of plasma channel for electron acceleration

Chen, L.-M.; Nakajima, Kazuhisa; Hong, W.*; Hua, J. F.*; Kameshima, Takashi; Kotaki, Hideyuki; Sugiyama, Kiyohiro*; Wen, X.*; Wu, Y.*; Tang, C.*; et al.

Chinese Optics Letters, 5(S1), p.S133 - S135, 2007/05

Journal Articles

Self-guiding of 100 TW femtosecond laser pulses in centimeter-scale underdense plasma

Chen, L.-M.; Kotaki, Hideyuki; Nakajima, Kazuhisa*; Koga, J. K.; Bulanov, S. V.; Tajima, Toshiki; Gu, Y. Q.*; Peng, H. S.*; Wang, X. X.*; Wen, T. S.*; et al.

Physics of Plasmas, 14(4), p.040703_1 - 040703_4, 2007/04

 Times Cited Count:36 Percentile:75.52(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)

An experiment for the laser self-guiding studies has been carried out with 100 TW laser pulse interaction with the long underdense plasma. Formation of extremely long plasma channel with its length, about 10 mm, 20 times above the Rayleigh length is observed. The self-focusing channel features such as the laser pulse significant bending and the electron cavity formation are demonstrated experimentally for the first time.

Journal Articles

Focusing quality of a split short laser pulse

Kotaki, Hideyuki; Oishi, Yuji*; Nayuki, Takuya*; Fujii, Takashi*; Nemoto, Koshichi*; Nakajima, Kazuhisa

Review of Scientific Instruments, 78(3), p.036102_1 - 036102_3, 2007/03

 Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.01(Instruments & Instrumentation)

no abstracts in English

Journal Articles

20 MeV quasi-monoenergetic electron beam production by using JLITE-X laser system at JAEA-APRC

Mori, Michiaki; Kando, Masaki; Daito, Izuru; Kotaki, Hideyuki; Hayashi, Yukio; Ogura, Koichi; Sagisaka, Akito; Esirkepov, T. Z.; Nakajima, Kazuhisa; Daido, Hiroyuki; et al.

International Journal of Modern Physics B, 21(3&4), p.407 - 414, 2007/02

 Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.01(Physics, Applied)

The quasi-monoenergetic electron beam produced by intense laser-plasma interaction was observed at plasma densities from $$4.1 times 10^{19} cm^{-3}$$ to $$5.0 times 10^{19} cm^{-3}$$. The terawatt laser beam was focused by using an off-axis parabolic mirror with f=648 mm. We observed quasi-monoenergetic electron beams in the forward direction. The peak energy of quasi-monoenergetic component of the electron beam was increased from 9 MeV to $$sim$$20 MeV with a energy spread of $$sim$$ 20$$%$$ increasing the plasma density from $$4.1 times 10^{19} cm^{-3}$$ to $$5.0 times 10^{19} cm^{-3}$$. However, the quasi-monoenergetic component of the electron beam disappeared at a plasma density of $$6.6 times 10^{19} cm^{-3}$$, and non-equilibrium (non Maxwellian) spectrum of the electron beam was observed. The table-top laser driven fs quasi-monoenergetic electron beam which is applicable to variety of fields has been demonstrated.

Journal Articles

Experimental study on $$K$$$$_{alpha}$$ X-ray emission from intense femtosecond laser-solid interactions

Xu, M. H.*; Chen, L.-M.; Li, Y.-T.*; Yuan, X.-H.*; Liu, Y.-Q.*; Nakajima, Kazuhisa; Tajima, Toshiki; Wang, Z.-H.*; Wei, Z.-Y.*; Zhao, W.*; et al.

Acta Physica Sinica, 56(1), p.353 - 358, 2007/01

 Times Cited Count:5 Percentile:37.28(Physics, Multidisciplinary)

The characteristics of $$K$$$$_{alpha}$$ X-ray sources generated by p-polarized femtosecond laser-solid interactions are experimentally studied in the relativistic regime. By use of knife-edge image technique and a single-photon-counting X-ray CCD camera, we obtain the source size, the spectrum and the conversion efficiency of the $$K$$$$_{alpha}$$ X-ray sources. The experimental results show that the conversion efficiency of $$K$$$$_{alpha}$$ photons reaches an optimum value 7.08$$times$$10$$^{-6}$$/sr at the laser intensity of 1.6$$times$$10$$^{18}$$W/cm$$^{2}$$, which is different from the Reich's simulation results. We find that about 10% of laser energy is converted into the forward hot electrons at the laser intensity of 1.6$$times$$10$$^{18}$$W/cm$$^{2}$$.

Journal Articles

Transverse dynamics and energy tuning of fast electrons generated in sub-relativistic intensity laser pulse interaction with plasmas

Mori, Michiaki; Kando, Masaki; Daito, Izuru; Kotaki, Hideyuki; Hayashi, Yukio; Yamazaki, Atsushi; Ogura, Koichi; Sagisaka, Akito; Koga, J. K.; Nakajima, Kazuhisa; et al.

Physics Letters A, 356(2), p.146 - 151, 2006/07

 Times Cited Count:46 Percentile:83.76(Physics, Multidisciplinary)

The regimes of quasi-mono-energetic electron beam generation were experimentally studied inthe sub-relativistic intensity laser plasma interaction. The observed electron acceleration regime is unfolded with two-dimensional-particle-in-cell simulations of laser-wakefield generation in the self-modulation regime.

Journal Articles

Laser acceleration activity at JAEA-QuBS-APRC; Recent activity

Mori, Michiaki; Kando, Masaki; Daito, Izuru; Kotaki, Hideyuki; Hayashi, Yukio; Ogura, Koichi; Sagisaka, Akito; Nakajima, Kazuhisa; Daido, Hiroyuki; Bulanov, S. V.; et al.

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Quark Nuclear Physics 2006, p.201 - 206, 2006/00

no abstracts in English

Journal Articles

Quasi-monoenergetic electron beam generation during laser pulse interaction with very low density plasmas

Yamazaki, Atsushi; Kotaki, Hideyuki; Daito, Izuru; Kando, Masaki; Bulanov, S. V.; Esirkepov, T. Z.; Kondo, Shuji; Kanazawa, Shuhei; Homma, Takayuki*; Nakajima, Kazuhisa; et al.

Physics of Plasmas, 12(9), p.093101_1 - 093101_5, 2005/09

 Times Cited Count:70 Percentile:88.77(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)

no abstracts in English

Journal Articles

Electron acceleration by a nonlinear wakefield generated by ultrashort (23-fs) high-peak-power laser pulses in plasma

Kando, Masaki; Masuda, Shinichi; Zhidkov, A.*; Yamazaki, Atsushi; Kotaki, Hideyuki; Kondo, Shuji; Homma, Takayuki*; Kanazawa, Shuhei; Nakajima, Kazuhisa; Hayashi, Yukio; et al.

Physical Review E, 71(1), p.015403_1 - 015403_4, 2005/01

 Times Cited Count:33 Percentile:77.37(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)

no abstracts in English

Journal Articles

Suppression of electron scattering by the longitudinal components of tightly focused laser fields

Masuda, Shinichi; Kando, Masaki; Kotaki, Hideyuki; Nakajima, Kazuhisa

Physics of Plasmas, 12(1), p.013102_1 - 013102_6, 2005/01

 Times Cited Count:22 Percentile:58.03(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)

no abstracts in English

Journal Articles

Generation of high quality electron beam by laser-plasma interaction

Kotaki, Hideyuki; Masuda, Shinichi; Kando, Masaki; Kondo, Shuji; Kanazawa, Shuhei; Homma, Takayuki; Nakajima, Kazuhisa

Quantum Aspects of Beam Physics 2003, p.119 - 124, 2004/10

 Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.4(Astronomy & Astrophysics)

no abstracts in English

Journal Articles

Head-on injection of a high quality electron beam by the interaction of two laser pulses

Kotaki, Hideyuki; Masuda, Shinichi; Kando, Masaki; Koga, J. K.; Nakajima, Kazuhisa

Physics of Plasmas, 11(6), p.3296 - 3302, 2004/06

 Times Cited Count:100 Percentile:93.56(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)

no abstracts in English

Journal Articles

Present status of photocathode microtron at JAERI APR

Kando, Masaki; Kotaki, Hideyuki; Kondo, Shuji; Kanazawa, Shuhei; Masuda, Shinichi; Homma, Takayuki; Nakajima, Kazuhisa

Proceedings of 28th Linear Accelerator Meeting in Japan, p.135 - 137, 2003/08

no abstracts in English

Journal Articles

High energy laser wakefield acceleration

Kotaki, Hideyuki; Kando, Masaki; Hosokai, Tomonao; Kondo, Shuji; Masuda, Shinichi; Kanazawa, Shuhei; Yokoyama, Takashi*; Matoba, Toru; Nakajima, Kazuhisa

International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, 14(1-4), p.255 - 262, 2003/03

no abstracts in English

Journal Articles

Effect of a laser prepulse on a narrow-cone ejection of MeV electrons from a gas jet irradiated by an ultrashort laser pulse

Hosokai, Tomonao*; Kinoshita, Kenichi*; Zhidkov, A.*; Nakamura, Kei*; Watanabe, Takahiro*; Ueda, Toru*; Kotaki, Hideyuki; Kando, Masaki; Nakajima, Kazuhisa; Uesaka, Mitsuru*

Physical Review E, 67(3), p.036407_1 - 036407_8, 2003/03

 Times Cited Count:81 Percentile:93.11(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)

no abstracts in English

Journal Articles

Quantum efficiency improvement of a copper photocathode in an RF gun

Kando, Masaki; Kotaki, Hideyuki; Kondo, Shuji; Kanazawa, Shuhei; Masuda, Shinichi; Homma, Takayuki; Nakajima, Kazuhisa

Proceedings of 27th Linear Accelerator Meeting in Japan, p.148 - 150, 2002/08

no abstracts in English

Journal Articles

Direct measurement of coherent ultrahigh wakefields excited by intense ultrashort laser pulses in a gas-jet plasma

Kotaki, Hideyuki; Kando, Masaki; Oketa, Takatsugu; Masuda, Shinichi; Koga, J. K.; Kondo, Shuji; Kanazawa, Shuhei; Yokoyama, Takashi*; Matoba, Toru; Nakajima, Kazuhisa

Physics of Plasmas, 9(4), p.1392 - 1400, 2002/04

 Times Cited Count:47 Percentile:79.49(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)

no abstracts in English

Journal Articles

Present status of the JAERI photocathode microtron

Kando, Masaki; Kotaki, Hideyuki; Kondo, Shuji; Kanazawa, Shuhei; Masuda, Shinichi; Yokoyama, Takashi*; Matoba, Toru; Nakajima, Kazuhisa

Proceedings of 26th Linear Accelerator Meeting in Japan, p.132 - 134, 2001/08

no abstracts in English

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