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TY - JOUR
T1 - Demonstration of tunability of HOFI waveguides via start-to-end simulations
AU - Mewes, S. M.
AU - Boyle, G. J.
AU - Pousa, A. Ferran
AU - Shalloo, R. J.
AU - Osterhoff, J.
AU - Arran, C.
AU - Corner, L.
AU - Walczak, R.
AU - Hooker, S. M.
AU - Thévenet, M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.
PY - 2023/8/18
Y1 - 2023/8/18
N2 - In recent years, hydrodynamic optical-field-ionized (HOFI) channels have emerged as a promising technique to create laser waveguides suitable for guiding tightly focused laser pulses in a plasma, as needed for laser-plasma accelerators. While experimental advances in HOFI channels continue to be made, the underlying mechanisms and the roles of the main parameters remain largely unexplored. In this paper, we propose a start-to-end simulation pipeline of the HOFI channel formation and the resulting laser guiding and use it to explore the underlying physics and the tunability of HOFI channels. This approach is benchmarked against experimental measurements. HOFI channels are shown to feature excellent guiding properties over a wide range of parameters, making them a promising and tunable waveguide option for laser-plasma accelerators.
AB - In recent years, hydrodynamic optical-field-ionized (HOFI) channels have emerged as a promising technique to create laser waveguides suitable for guiding tightly focused laser pulses in a plasma, as needed for laser-plasma accelerators. While experimental advances in HOFI channels continue to be made, the underlying mechanisms and the roles of the main parameters remain largely unexplored. In this paper, we propose a start-to-end simulation pipeline of the HOFI channel formation and the resulting laser guiding and use it to explore the underlying physics and the tunability of HOFI channels. This approach is benchmarked against experimental measurements. HOFI channels are shown to feature excellent guiding properties over a wide range of parameters, making them a promising and tunable waveguide option for laser-plasma accelerators.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.033112
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.033112
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85169291245
VL - 5
JO - Physical Review Research
JF - Physical Review Research
SN - 2643-1564
IS - 3
M1 - 033112
ER -