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@PHDTHESIS{Kuropka:440946,
author = {Kuropka, Willi},
othercontributors = {Assmann, Ralph and Kärtner, Franz},
title = {{S}tudies towards {A}cceleration of {R}elativistic
{E}lectron {B}eamsin {L}aser-driven {D}ielectric
{M}icrostructures},
school = {Universität Hamburg},
type = {Dissertation},
address = {Hamburg},
publisher = {Verlag Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron},
reportid = {PUBDB-2020-02257, DESY-THESIS-2020-009},
series = {DESY-THESIS},
pages = {124},
year = {2020},
note = {Dissertation, Universität Hamburg, 2020},
abstract = {In this work an approach to relativistic electron
acceleration employing laser-driven dielectric
microstructures (DLA) is considered. New DLA designs were
developed, a simulation code for efficient DLA simulation
was devised, the capabilities of dielectric microstructures
as particle beam diagnostic devices were investigated and a
laser induced damage threshold measurement setup was
implemented and tested.To leverage well developed
near-infrared laser sources new DLAs were designed that are
robust against realistic manufacturing tolerances and
exhibit a predicted increased electron transmission of up to
$\SI{44}{\percent}$ of the charge and longitudinal
acceptance of around $\SI{2}{\femto\second},$ but are still
able to produce $\SI{}{\giga\volt/\meter}$ acceleration
gradients. A great challenge is the numerical simulation of
long interaction lengths of electrons with the short drive
laser wavelengths present in DLAs due to the high demand in
computation resources needed by the large simulation domain
compared to the wavelength. A novel method was developed,
which is able to efficiently model meter long DLAs without
any resonant particle approximations by use of transfer maps
generated from a single-period electromagnetic field
simulation and a limited set of particle tracking
simulations. In PIC simulations hundreds of DLA periods can
be modeled using a high performance computing cluster. With
the code presented in this work a meter long DLA (hundred
thousands of periods) can be simulated on a workstation.
This PhD work includes the numerical investigation of
particle beam diagnostics capabilities of DLAs, namely as
transverse deflecting structures and as new passive and
active bunch length measurement devices for ultra-short
particle bunches in the sub-femto second regime. All the
presented methods are very compact in the particle beam line
compared to existing methods.An experiment was devised to
test the designed DLAs by injection of an electron bunch
from a conventional state-of-the-art radio frequency
accelerator with the potential to show first increase of the
average energy of a relativistic electron beam in a DLA
device. In contrast all experiments up to today are only
modulating the particle beam energy. Finally an experimental
setup was designed and implemented to measure the short
pulse laser induced damage threshold of DLAs with
characterization measurements taken on a bulk material.},
cin = {MPY1 / UNI/EXP / CFEL-UFOX},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)MPY1-20170908 / $I:(DE-H253)UNI_EXP-20120731$ /
I:(DE-H253)CFEL-UFOX-20160927},
pnm = {631 - Accelerator R $\&$ D (POF3-631) / ACHIP - Laser
Accelerators on a Chip $(ACHIP_2015-10-01)$},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-631 / $G:(DE-HGF)ACHIP_2015-10-01$},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)CFEL-Exp-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)3 / PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
doi = {10.3204/PUBDB-2020-02257},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/440946},
}