Laser-powered accelerators require ultrahigh intensity lasers that deliver a burst of energy in an extremely short pulse. We use infrared lasers operating at a high repetition rate to drive our accelerators.
Laser-powered accelerators require ultrahigh intensity lasers that deliver a burst of energy in an extremely short pulse. We use infrared lasers operating at a high repetition rate to drive our accelerators.
Our laser-powered accelerators are created by sending the laser pulse into a gas. The strong laser field turns the gas into a plasma, drawing a wake behind it that pulls electrons along and accelerates them to near the speed of light. This process accelerates electrons hundreds of times faster than conventional technologies, allowing us to build the most compact high energy particle accelerators in the world.
Electrons exiting the accelerator are conditioned in specially designed beamlines to select the desired beam parameters for each application. With our proprietary technology, we create electron beams suited for exploring science, testing electronics, or printing semiconductors.
For our lithography light source, the electrons are inserted into a magnetic structure called an undulator. The electrons oscillate in the alternating magnetic field, generating coherent X-rays at each turn.
After exiting the undulator, the electrons and X-rays are separated by passing both through a strong magnetic field that bends the electrons away without affecting the X-rays.
Our X-ray lasers are the ultimate light source for the lithography machines of the future. They combine tunable wavelength, exceptional brightness, and excellent efficiency into a compact footprint that delivers finer features, higher yields, and lower operational costs.
Over 8 hours of continuous operation of a free-electron laser driven by a laser-plasma accelerator
Greater than 1000-fold Gain in a Free-Electron Laser Driven by a Laser-Plasma Accelerator with High Reliability
The acceleration of a high-charge electron bunch to 10 GeV in a 10-cm nanoparticle-assisted wakefield accelerator
High-energy betatron source driven by a 4-PW laser with applications to non-destructive imaging
Revisiting Experimental Signatures of the Ponderomotive Force
Free-electron lasing at 27 nanometers based on a laser wakefield accelerator
Laser wakefield accelerators for high-resolution X-ray imaging of complex microstructures
Laser acceleration of quasi-monoenergetic MeV ion beams
Observation of Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission and Exponential Growth at 530 nm
Laser Electron Accelerator