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We have discovered a new regime of bright coherent x-ray generation by relativistic plasma singularities driven by a multi-terawatt femtosecond laser focused onto a gas jet target [1]-[2]. The laser pulse propagates through the plasma, pushes electrons producing an electron-free cavity, and generates a bow wave [3]; singularities are produced at the joining of the cavity wall and the bow wave and represent point-like coherent x-ray emitters, which is a particular case of Burst Intensification by Singularity Emitting Radiation (BISER) [4].
In previous experiments, BISER occurred spontaneously, after the relativistic self-focusing, resulting in a relatively large fluctuations of the x-ray source position and low overall stability. Basing on simulations with the PIC REMP code [5], we propose to control the BISER with a tailored plasma density profile. We demonstrate the BISER control employing a sharp plasma density jump generated by a shock in supersonic gas flow in experiments with the J-KAREN-P laser [6]-[7]. The induced BISER resulted in controllable, low-jitter x-ray source position and higher x-ray yield. Our results, on the one hand, represent an important step towards implementation of a next-generation bright compact coherent x-ray source, and on the other hand, demonstrate the new technique of relativistic self-focusing control and its diagnostics.
We thank the J-KAREN-P laser operation group. We acknowledge the financial support from JSPS Kakenhi JP 25390135 and JP 26707031.
\n[1]A. S. Pirozhkov, M. Kando, T. Zh. Esirkepov, P. Gallegos, H. Ahmed, E. N. Ragozin, A. Ya. Faenov, et al., "Soft-X-Ray Harmonic Comb from Relativistic Electron Spikes," Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 135004-5, (2012).
[2]A. Pirozhkov et al., "High order harmonics from relativistic electron spikes," New J. Phys. 16, 093003-30 (2014).
[3]T. Zh. Esirkepov, Y. Kato, and S. V. Bulanov, "Bow Wave from Ultraintense Electromagnetic Pulses in Plasmas," Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 265001-4 (2008).
[4]A. S. Pirozhkov, T. Zh. Esirkepov, T. A. Pikuz, A. Ya. Faenov, K. Ogura, Y. Hayashi, H. Kotaki, et al., "Burst intensification by singularity emitting radiation in multi-stream flows," Scientific Reports (accepted).
[5]T. Zh. Esirkepov, "Exact charge conservation scheme for Particle-in-Cell simulation with an arbitrary form-factor," Comput. Phys. Comm. 135, 144-153 (2001).
[6]H. Kiriyama, M. Mori, A. S. Pirozhkov, K. Ogura, A. Sagisaka, A. Kon., et al., "High-Contrast, High-Intensity Petawatt-Class Laser and Applications," IEEE J.S.T.Quantum Electron. 21, 1601118-18 (2015).
[7]A. S. Pirozhkov, Y. Fukuda, M. Nishiuchi, H. Kiriyama, A. Sagisaka, K. Ogura, M. Mori, M. Kishimoto, et al., "Approaching the diffraction-limited, bandwidth-limited Petawatt," Opt. Express 25, 20486-20501 (2017).
Control of Burst Intensification by Singularity Emitting Radiation (BISER) with density jump
