Sprecher
Beschreibung
Subluminal and superluminal light pulses have attracted a considerable attention in the past decades opening perspectives in telecommunications, optical storage, and fundamental physics. Usually achieved in matter, superluminal propagation has also been demonstrated in vacuum with quasi-Bessel beams or Spatio-Temporal Couplings (STCs). While in the first case the propagation was diffraction-free, but with hardly controllable pulse velocities and limited to moderate intensities, in the second a high tunability was achieved, yet with significantly lengthened pulse durations. Here, we report on a new concept that extends these approaches to relativistic intensities and ultra-short pulses by mixing STCs and quasi-Bessel beams to control independently the light velocity and intensity. When used to drive a Laser-Plasma Accelerator (LPA), this concept leads to a new regime, dephasing-free, where the electron beam energy gain increases by more than one order of magnitude.
| Working group | Laser-driven electron acceleration |
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