RIKEN SPring-8 Center Laser-Driven Electron-Acceleration Technology Group

Group Director: Takunori Taira (Ph.D.)

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Research Summary

Laser-Driven Electron-Acceleration Technology Group will develop the compact, stable laser driven electron acceleration system, and its key technology towards the new generation of XFEL. Laser Acceleration Development Team proceed the R&D of GeV-class multi-staged Laser Wake-Field Acceleration (LWFA) with plasma photonic devices. Basic Laser Development Team will develop the compact power lasers based on these Tiny Integrated LAsers (TILA) to provide the extreme giant-power, and open their fruitful future of “Giant Micro-photonics” for the advanced electron accelerators.

Main Research Fields

Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering

Related Research Fields

Engineering
Quantum beam science
Applied physics
Physics

Keywords

Laser Particle Acceleration
Laser Wakefield
Tiny Integrated Lasers (TILA)
Giant Micro-photonics
Giant Micro-photonics

Selected Publications

Papers with an asterisk(*) are based on research conducted outside of RIKEN.

1. Jolly, S.W., Matlis, N.H., Ahr, F., Leroux, V., Eichner, T., Calendron, A.-L., Ishizuki, H., Taira, T., and Kartner, F.X., and Maier, A.R.:
"Spectral phase control of interfering chirped pulses for high-energy narrowband terahertz generation"
Nature Communications, vol. 10, Article number 2591 (2019).
2. Kawasaki,T., Yahia, V., and Taira, T.:
"100 Hz operation in the 10 PW/sr・cm² class Nd:YAG Micro-MOPA"
Opt. Express, vol. 27, no. 14, pp. 19555-19561 (2019)
3. Zheng, L., Kausas, A., and Taira, T.:
">30 MW peak power from distributed face cooling tiny integrated laser"
Opt. Express, vol. 27, no. 21, pp. 30217-30224 (2019).
4. *Taira, T.:
"Domain-controlled laser ceramics toward giant micro-photonics [Invited]"
Opt. Mater. Express, vol. 1, no. 5, pp. 1040-1050 (2011)
5. *Taira, T.:
"RE³⁺-ion-doped YAG ceramic lasers,"
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron., vol. 13, no. 3, May/June, pp. 798-809 (2007.5-6).
6. N. Pathak, A. Zhidkov, Y. Sakai, Z. Jin, and T. Hosokai
"Charge coupling in multi-stage laser wakefield acceleration"
Phys. of Plasmas, 27, 033106 (2020)
7. A. Zhidkov, N. Pathak, J. Koga, H. Kai, M. Kando, T. Hosokai.:
"Characterization of ionization injection in gas mixtures irradiated by subpetawatt class laser pulses"
Phys. Rev. Research, 2, 013216 (2020)
8. Z.Jin, H. Nakamura, N. Pathak, Y. Sakai, A. Zhidkov, K. Sueda, R. Kodama, T. Hosokai.:
"Coupling Effects in Multi-Stage Laser Wake-field Acceleration of Electrons"
Scientific Reports, 9, 20045 (2019)
9. N. Pathak, A. Zhidkov, T. Hosokai and R. Kodama.:
"Spectral effects in the propagation of chirped laser pulses in uniform underdense plasma"
Phys. Plasmas, 25, 1, 013119 (2018)
10. Y. Sakai, N. Pathak, Z.Jin, A. Zhidkov, K. Sueda, H. Toran, Y. Tanizawa, T. Otsuka, j. Ogino, H. Nakamura, R. Kodama, T. Hosokai.:
"Narrow band and energy selectable plasma cathode for multi-stage laser wake-field acceleration"
Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams, 21, 10, 101301 (2018)

Events

Publications

Lab Members

Principal investigator

Takunori Taira: Group Director

Contact Information

1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho
Sayo-gun, Hyogo
679-5148 Japan
Tel: +81-(0)791-58-0803 (PHS:7805)
Email: taira [at] spring8.or.jp

Organization

Laser Acceleration Development Team: Tomonao Hosokai (D.Sc.)
Basic Laser Development Team: Takunori Taira (Ph.D.)