填充预等离子体通道靶激光电子加速研究北大核心CSCD

采用紧聚焦的超强短脉冲激光与固体通道靶相互作用是获得大电量、高准直相对论电子束的一种有效方式。实验中由于激光预脉冲烧蚀靶壁产生预等离子体会膨胀、填充到真空通道中,从而导致电子束品质发生变化。采用二维PIC粒子模拟程序研究了通道靶中填充预等离子体的电子加速过程。模拟结果显示,在功率密度为5.0×10^(20W/cm^(2))的超强短脉冲激光条件下,通道中填充一定密度的等离子体时激光场优先与低密度等离子体相互作用,激光脉冲与通道壁的相互作用减弱,电子加速机制由纵向场主导的真空电子加速转变为横向电场主导的等离子体电子加速,产生电子束具有更大的电荷量,但能量降低,发散角增大。     

飞秒激光与固体靶相互作用的前向快电子束发散研究

为了研究前向快电子束的发散问题,采用飞秒激光辐照平面铜靶,以电子角分布仪和氟化锂(LiF)热释光探测器探测快电子的前向发散角。实验显示前向快电子束发散角均在95°(半高宽FWHM)以上。理论计算指出预等离子体中电子的初速度以及加速后的电子在靶内碰撞效应均不是产生大发散角的重要原因。根据激光-等离子体相互作用理论,等离子体中的电磁场才是导致前向快电子束产生较大发散角的主要原因。这个研究为获取较小发散角的前向快电子束提供了实验设置的依据。     

激光脉冲的横向波形对弓形波电子俘获的影响

用粒子模拟研究了在激光尾波场电子弓形波注入过程中激光脉冲的横向波形对尾波场俘获电子数目的影响, 发现与高斯激光相比, 超高斯形激光更有利于拉动空泡闭合前侧边的电子团向空泡尾部汇聚形成高能量局域化的弓形波, 从而导致更多的电子注入到空泡的加速相, 使得被俘获的电子数目提高近5倍, 且电子束品质得到改善.该研究对于进一步理解尾波场加速中电子注入等有参考价值. 关键词： 尾波场 电子俘获 横向波形 粒子模拟     

激光辐照金属丝产生电子束的发散度

研究了激光辐照金属丝产生电子束的自身磁场对其发散度的影响。通过理论分析和量级估算得到:电子在金属丝附近运动时,同时受到金属丝电场和自身磁场的作用,聚集效应明显;当电子离开金属丝后,空间电荷效应的库仑排斥作用与自身磁场的聚集作用量级相当,近似认为可以保持已经具有的发散度。利用经典轨迹蒙特卡罗方法模拟了该过程,计算结果表明自身磁场可以解释电子束的发散度及其对金属丝长度的依赖关系。     

强激光与柱腔靶作用下准直高能电子束的产生

利用二维PIC粒子模拟程序研究了超短超强激光脉冲与柱腔靶相互作用产生的表面超热电子加速现象。采用光强为1021 W/cm2量级的超高斯激光脉冲掠入射进入柱腔靶,在靶的内壁上观察到了GeV量级的表面超热电子。超热电子束被准静态的电场和磁场约束在内壁表面附近,保证了电子束的准直性,发散角仅为1.6°;并且由于超热电子束在纵向激光电场中加速了mm级的距离,激光到高能电子(100 MeV)的转换效率达到了26.6%。另外,通过多参数模拟和理论解析讨论了激光的光强以及横向空间分布对这种表面超热电子加速的影响。     

快电子发散角的实验测量

采用飞秒激光辐照铜靶,利用电子角分布仪和LiF热释光探测器测量了快电子发射的发散角.实验结果显示,快电子的发散角与激光入射角密切相关,随着激光入射角增加,快电子的发散角逐渐减小.在相同入射角条件下,加上预脉冲将导致快电子的发散角变小.这个结果为获取较小发散角的快电子束提供了实验参考.     

强激光锥型靶真空电子加速数值模拟研究

真空激光加速机制具有加速场梯度大、加速电子电量高的优点,目前制约真空加速机制研究发展的主要问题是如何产生具有一定初速度的电子并将其注入加速场。提出了一种利用强激光与锥型靶相互作用产生高能电子并实现真空加速的新方法,利用二维PIC(Particle-in-cell)粒子模拟程序对这一方法进行了研究。模拟结果显示,对于光强为1021 W/cm2量级的高斯激光脉冲,产生了能量为GeV量级、发散角约为1°的强流快电子束。此外还通过理论解析和参数模拟研究了靶半径对这种超热电子加速机制的影响。     

激光尾波场驱动准连续小角度电子束研究进展

报道了在北京大学新建成的5 Hz 200 TW飞秒激光加速器实验装置上利用68 TW(1.7 J,25 fs)的激光与混合气体(99%He掺杂1%N_2)进行激光电子加速的初步实验结果与理论分析.在实验中观测到了最大截止能量为290 MeV的连续电子能谱,并且最大输出能量在一定的聚焦范围内基本不变.二维particle-in-cell模拟表明:电离注入导致电子不断注入,使得纵向相空间在激光传播几个毫米后基本被电子填满;之后相空间中电子分布基本保持稳定,随着激光传播距离的增加,输出电子最大能量几乎不变,这与实验观察到的最大输出能量随激光聚焦位置在一定范围内不变的现象一致.实验与模拟结果揭示了在当前实验条件下连续电离注入对电子束品质的影响,为今后进一步优化电离注入电子品质提供了依据.     

离轴格里高利系统中失调对远场时空特性影响

扩束是超高峰值功率激光装置中必不可少的一环,由离轴抛物面镜组成的反射式扩束系统可解决传统透射式扩束带来的色散、色差及激光脉冲前沿畸变等问题.利用光线追迹法和惠更斯-菲涅耳原理对反射式扩束和聚焦过程进行分析,计算了在反射式扩束系统参数不同时,离轴抛物面镜失调对激光脉冲远场时空特性的影响,给出了激光脉冲斯特列尔比和峰值强度的误差允许范围.     

超高斯渐变反射率激光反射镜

本文介绍了超高斯渐变反射率激光反射镜设计的基本原理。采用中心带孔的固定挡法制备渐变厚度薄膜的工艺方法，用ｅ型电子束枪在光学真空镀膜机中蒸发镀制出了膜斑直径为：３～６ｍｍ，级次为：２５～７的超高斯渐变反射镜     

高品质激光尾波场电子加速器

激光尾波场电子加速的加速梯度相比于传统直线加速器高了3—4个量级,对于小型化粒子加速器与辐射源的研制具有重要的意义,成为当今国内外的研究热点.台式化辐射源应用需求的提高,特别是自由电子激光装置的快速发展,对电子束流品质提出了更高的要求,激光尾波场电子加速的束流品质和稳定性是目前实现新型辐射源的首要障碍.本文归纳整理了中国科学院上海光学精密机械研究所电子加速研究团队十年来在研制台式化激光尾波场电子加速器过程中采取的方案和取得的进展.例如率先提出了注入级和加速级分离的级联加速方案,通过实验获得了GeV量级的电子束能量;基于级联加速方式利用能量啁啾控制,实验获得世界最高品质的电子束流;通过优化激光系统稳定性和特殊的气体喷流结构,获得稳定的高品质电子束流输出等.这一系列实验结果有利于进一步推进激光尾波场电子加速器的应用.     

On the production of flat electron bunches for laser wakefield acceleration

We suggest a novel method for the injection of electrons into the acceleration phase of particle accelerators, producing low-emittance beams appropriate even for the demanding high-energy linear collider specifications. We discuss the injection mechanism into the acceleration phase of the wakefield in a plasma behind a high-intensity laser pulse, which takes advantage of the laser polarization and focusing. The scheme uses the structurally stable regime of transverse wakewave breaking, when the electron trajectory self-intersection leads to the formation of a flat electron bunch. As shown in three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of the interaction of a laser pulse elongated in the transverse direction with an underdense plasma, the electrons injected via the transverse wakewave breaking and accelerated by the wakewave perform betatron oscillations with different amplitudes and frequencies along the two transverse coordinates. The polarization and focusing geometry lead to a way to produce relativistic electron bunches with an asymmetric emittance (flat beam). An approach for generating flat laser-accelerated ion beams is briefly discussed. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

Pulse compression in radio frequency photoinjectors-applications toadvanced accelerators

While RF photoinjectors are an excellent source of high brightness electron beams, there are constraints to tying together the expected emittance and peak current performance of a given photoinjector system. These constraints, which arise from the complicated dynamics of the electrons due to the interplay of RF and space-charge forces within the photoinjector, tend to favor lower peak current operation. For some ultimate uses of photoinjector beams, such as linear collider test beams, wakefield accelerators, and free-electron lasers (FEL's), one may desire much higher peak currents. In this case, an inexpensive and reliable method for producing extremely short high-current electron bunches is to use magnetic compression. We examine this scheme analytically and by computer simulation. Many applications are illustrated, including the TESLA Test Facility/FEL injector, ultra-high current beams for plasma wakefields and generation of femtosecond electron pulses for injection into short wavelength laser-based accelerators. It is shown that the injection timing jitter associated with the laser can be nearly eliminated using this scheme, making it an indispensable component in many of the advanced accelerator injectors we consider     

Adiabatic beam buncher for plasma accelerators

An adiabatic free-electron laser wiggler for electron beam bunching is described. A free-electron laser naturally bunches an electron beam. When the beam is trapped adiabatically, the emittance of the bunched beam is decreased significantly compared with abrupt trapping. For a 57-period two-meter buncher having poleface magnetic field of 2 T and 10 GW of 100 μm radiation, adiabatic trapping reduces the final emittance by a factor of three     

Emittance-exchange-based high harmonic generation scheme for a short-wavelength free electron laser

Generation of short-wavelength radiation by a free-electron laser using up-frequency conversion of an electron bunch density modulation is currently an area of active research. We propose a new scheme for producing the longitudinal electron bunch density modulation similar to the recently proposed echo-enabled harmonic generation but based on an emittance exchange beam line and a multislit mask. Beam line analysis and start-to-end simulation are presented.     

光阴极微波电子枪驱动激光整形与传输系统

为满足合肥先进光源对高品质注入束流的要求,合肥先进光源预研项目研制了一套光阴极微波电子枪系统作为注入器电子源。为降低空间电荷效应引起的束流发射度增长,对驱动激光整形及传输系统进行了理论和实验研究。通过双折射晶体的脉冲时间整形以及采用光阑高斯截断的空间整形,得到了近似均匀分布的激光脉冲。像传递激光传输光路,实现了光阴极表面激光位置的高稳定性。实验结果显示,光阴极表面的激光位置抖动小于4 μm,激光性能满足实验要求。     

一个新型电子直线加速器的预制研究

文中给出了对一个新型紧凑的电子直线加速器(linac)证明原理的研究结果.在该linac中,通过偏转磁场选择特定能量和相位的大功率速调管用毕束流,然后将它们注入到加速节中,同时使速调管工作在自激振荡状态,使传统linac上的许多部件都可以省去.据此建成的linac的结构简单、维护容易、性能良好、造价经济.因此实现这种具有众多优点的新型linac将有助于linac应用的推广.要实现这样的linac有许多关键的问题需要解决.电子束团的性能参量,如能量、电流、发射度,以及速调管自激振荡的频率稳定度等都必须符合加速的要求.文中给出的计算机模拟和实验结果都表明了实现这种新型的linac的可行性     

多狭缝法测量激光尾场电子束发射度的模拟研究

发射度是描述束流品质的重要物理量,根据发射度和传输矩阵可以准确计算束流包络和发散角的变化。在考察传统加速器束流发射度测量方法的基础上,提出采用多狭缝法对激光尾场产生的电子束发射度进行测量。采用宽度为20 m的多狭缝板对发射度为0.05 mmmrad的激光尾场加速电子发射度进行测量,数值模拟结果表明采用多狭缝法测量的相对误差可以控制在5%以内。并给出了不同狭缝参数对测量精度的影响,模拟结果表明狭缝宽度对发射度测量精度影响最大。狭缝宽度越窄,测量精度越高,反之,则越低。     

Enhancing the accelerated beam current in the booster synchrotron by optimizing the transport line beam propagation

In this paper, we present the results of transverse beam emittance and twiss parameter measurement of an electron beam, delivered by a 20 MeV microtron which is used as a pre-injector system for a booster synchrotron in the Indus Accelerator Facility at RRCAT Indore. Based on these measured beam parameters, beam optics of a transport line was optimized and its results are also discussed in this paper. This beam transport line is used to transport the electron beam from the 20 MeV microtron to the booster synchrotron. The booster synchrotron works as a main injector for Indus-1 and Indus-2 synchrotron radiation facilities. To optimize the beam optics of a transport line for proper beam transmission through the line as well as to match the beam twiss parameters at the beam injection point of another accelerator, it is necessary to know the transverse beam emittance and twiss parameters of the beam coming from the first one. A MATLAB-based GUI program has been developed to calculate the beam emittance and twiss parameters, using quadrupole scan method. The measured parameters have been used for beam transport line optimization and twiss parameters matching at booster injection point. After this optimization, an enhancement of ～50% beam current has been observed in the booster synchrotron.     

Laser acceleration and its future

Laser acceleration is based on the concept to marshal collective fields that may be induced by laser. In order to exceed the material breakdown field by a large factor, we employ the broken-down matter of plasma. While the generated wakefields resemble with the fields in conventional accelerators in their structure (at least qualitatively), it is their extreme accelerating fields that distinguish the laser wakefield from others, amounting to tiny emittance and compact accelerator. The current research largely falls on how to master the control of acceleration process in spatial and temporal scales several orders of magnitude smaller than the conventional method. The efforts over the last several years have come to a fruition of generating good beam properties with GeV energies on a table top, leading to many applications, such as ultrafast radiolysis, intraoperative radiation therapy, injection to X-ray free electron laser, and a candidate for future high energy accelerators.