Electron Acceleration in Wakefield and Supra-Bubble Regimes by Ultraintense Laser with Asymmetric Pulse

Electron acceleration in plasma driven by circularpolarized ultraintense laser with asymmetric pulse are investigatedanalytically and numerically in terms of oscillation-center Hamiltonian formalism. Studies include wakefield acceleration, which dominates in blow-out or bubble regime and snow-plow acceleration which dominates in supra-bubble regime. By a comparison with each other it is found that snow-plow acceleration has lower acceleration capability. In wakefield acceleration, there exists an obvious optimum pulse asymmetry or/and pulse lengths that leads to the high net energy gain while in snow-plow acceleration it is insensitive to the pulse lengths. Power and linear scaling laws for wakefield and snow-plow acceleration respetively are observed from the net energy gain depending on laser field amplitude. Moreover, there exists also an upper and lower limit on plasma density for an effective acceleration in both of regimes.     

非对称脉冲超强激光产生的尾场空泡区和超空泡区中的正电子加速

在震荡中心哈密顿原理的(oscillation-center Hamiltonian)框架下,讨论了用非对称圆极化的强激光脉冲激发的尾场和在超空泡区中加速正电子的相关问题.研究内容包括:在超强激光所激发的空泡后区中的尾场正电子加速方法和在超空泡区中的雪梨(snow-plow)正电子加速方法.通过理论分析和数值模拟方法定性地比较了2种正电子加速方法的有效加速性能.结果显示,尾场加速的效果比雪梨加速好,2种加速方法中激光脉冲振幅与被加速正电子的能量之间分别存在着指数关系和线性关系.文中还分析了正电子最大尾场和雪梨加速能量与等离子体密度之间的关系