[10a-M135-1~11] 3.6 Ultrashort-pulse and high-intensity lasers

▲ [10a-M135-10] BISER control at 150 TW: keV photons and microjoule pulses in the 60-100 eV range

〇Alexander S Pirozhkov¹, Timur Zh. Esirkepov¹, Bruno Gonzalez-Izquierdo¹, Akito Sagisaka¹, Tatiana A. Pikuz^2,7, Zoe E. Davidson³, Koichi Ogura¹, Andreas Bierwage¹, Kai Huang¹, Nobuhiko Nakanii¹, James K. Koga¹, Alexey Ya. Lopatin⁴, Yuji Fukuda¹, David Neely^5,3, Paul McKenna³, Eugene N. Ragozin⁶, Sergey A. Pikuz⁷, Nikolay I. Chkhalo⁴, Nikolay N. Salashchenko⁴, Shinichi Namba⁸, Hiromitsu Kiriyama¹, Masato Koike¹, Kiminori Kondo¹, Tetsuya Kawachi¹, Masaki Kando¹ (1.QST, 2.Osaka Univ., 3.Strathclyde Univ., 4.IPM RAS, 5.CLF RAL, 6.LPI RAS, 7.JIHT RAS, 8.Hiroshima Univ.)

Keywords:Burst Intensification by Singularity Emitting Radiation (BISER), Relativistic plasma singularities, Coherent x-ray sources

Burst Intensification by Singularity Emitting Radiation (BISER) [1] is a strong intensification (constructive interference, N² effect) of traveling wave emission from singularities produced by multi-stream flows. In particular, bright coherent x-rays [2], [3] are produced by point-like sources, i.e. relativistic plasma singularities driven by high-quality [4] multi-TW femtosecond lasers in gas targets. Here, the density singularities are produced by multi-stream plasma flow resulting from the wake and bow waves [5]. In previous experiments, BISER resulted from relativistic self-focusing, which is a laser beam instability. To improve the stability, we have recently demonstrated a BISER control technique using a 20 TW laser and tailored plasma density, as it was suggested by our simulations with the Particle-In-Cell code REMP [6].

Here we present new experimental results on the BISER control technique obtained with the J-KAREN-P laser [7],[8] at the power of 150 TW. We extended the BISER emission up to the keV spectral region and obtained an order of magnitude enhancement of the photon yield (up to 1 μJ pulse, 10¹¹ photons in the 60-100 eV spectral range within a 10^-2 sr acceptance angle).

We thank the J-KAREN-P laser operation group. We acknowledge financial support from JSPS Kakenhi JP 25390135, JP 26707031, and the QST Director Fund #20.

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