TY  - CONF
AU  - Habib, Ahmad Fahim
AU  - Scherkl, Paul
AU  - Manahan, Grace Gloria
AU  - Heinemann, Thomas
AU  - Ullmann, Daniel
AU  - Sutherland, Andrew
AU  - Knetsch, Alexander
AU  - Litos, Michael
AU  - Hogan, Mark
AU  - Rosenzweig, James
AU  - Hidding, Bernhard
A3  - Murokh, Alex
A3  - Spiga, Daniele
TI  - Plasma accelerator-based ultrabright x-ray beams from ultrabright electron beams
PB  - SPIE
M1  - PUBDB-2019-04619
SP  - 111100A
PY  - 2019
N1  - © COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).
AB  - We provide a pathway to compact ultrabright light sources, based on ultrabright, high energy electron beams emerging from a combination of plasma Wakefield acceleration and plasma photocathodes. While plasma acceleration is known to produce accelerating fields three or four orders of magnitude larger than conventional accelerators, the plasma photocathode allows production of electron beams three or four orders of magnitude brighter than conventional, and thus is suitable to unleash the full potential of plasma accelerators. In particular, this is the case for various types of light sources, which profit enormously from an increased electron beam brightness. Building on the recent first experimental demonstration of the plasma photocathode, in this work we discuss the prospects of plasma photocathodes for key photon source approaches such as x-ray free-electron lasers, betatron radiation, ion-channel lasers and inverse Compton scattering.
T2  - Advances in Laboratory-based X-Ray Sources, Optics, and Applications VII
CY  - 11 Aug 2019 - 15 Aug 2019, San Diego (United States)
Y2  - 11 Aug 2019 - 15 Aug 2019
M2  - San Diego, United States
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)8 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)7
DO  - DOI:10.1117/12.2530976
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/428509
ER  -