Laser Acceleration Experimentsat ORION.pptVIP

Laser Acceleration Experimentsat ORION Outline The Promise of Laser Acceleration High Gradient Requires High Energy Density Electrical Efficiency of Lasers Photonics Trend: Custom Optical Media Photonic Crystals allow for tailoring optical properties to specific applications: Nonlinearity: Spectroscopy, wavelength conversion in telecom Dispersion: Telecom signal processing Large mode area: High power applications such as lithography and materials processing Custom optics require manufacturing techniques that can meet tight tolerances Fabrication Trend: Small Feature Size The integrated circuit industry drives development of ever-smaller feature size capability and tolerance DUV, X-ray and e-beam lithography High-aspect-ratio etching using high-density plasma systems Critical Feature size control → 0.5 nm (l/200) RMS by 2010 (’01 ITRS) Semiconductor and Advanced Opto-electronics Material Capabilities at Stanford Recent Progress and Proposals for Vacuum Laser Acceleration Experiments Interferometric Accelerators(Inverse Transition Radiation) Active Medium(Cerenkov Amplifier in Overmoded Waveguide) L. Sch?chter, Technion, Israel High Field Acceleration Mechanisms High Field Acceleration Mechanisms Prospects for Producing Relativistic Laser Fields Experiments in Laser Acceleration Technical Questions Laser Acceleration Working Group Recent Progress in Optical Materials Laser Linear Collider pre-Concept * 2nd ORION Workshop February 18-20, 2003 The Promise of Laser Acceleration Recent Progress in Lasers Recent Laser Acceleration Mechanisms Low Field (ao1) Acceleration and High Field (ao?1) Experiments in Laser Acceleration Future Issues 2nd ORION Workshop February 18-20, 2003 Lasers produce unequalled energy densities and electric fields Very short pulses permit higher surface electric fields without breakdown Very short wavelengths (compared to microwaves) naturally lead to: Sub-femtosecond electron bunches ? sub-fs radiation pulses Very short wavelengths req