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A novel plasma mirror is proposed for realizing all-optical Compton scattering, and its performance is compared with that of planar and concave plasma mirrors. Compared to a planar mirror, a concave mirror augments the radiation energy, but it decreases the collimation of the emitted photon beam. With the aid of the increased pulse length of the re...
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... A larger yield of photons in the 1-20 MeV would impact several applications, including radiosurgery [35,36], photo-transmutation of long-lived nuclear waste and production of medical isotopes [37][38][39], and investigation of the structure of materials by nuclear resonance fluorescence [40,41]. While many methods have been proposed to increase the yield of high-energy photons (see e.g., [42][43][44][45][46][47]), here, we show something qualitatively different: how space-time structured light can significantly enhance the emission probability of the underlying process. ...
The emission of a photon by an electron in an intense laser field is one of the most fundamental processes in electrodynamics and underlies the many applications that utilize high-energy photon beams. This process is typically studied for electrons colliding head-on with a stationary-focus laser pulse. Here, we show that the energy lost by electrons and the yield of emitted photons can be substantially increased by replacing a stationary-focus pulse with an equal-energy flying-focus pulse whose focus co-propagates with the electrons. These advantages of the flying focus are a result of operating in the quantum regime of the interaction, where the energy loss and photon yield scale more favorably with the interaction time than the laser intensity. Simulations of 10 GeV electrons colliding with 10 J pulses demonstrate these advantages and predict a 5× increase in the yield of 1-20 MeV photons with a flying focus pulse, which would impact applications in medicine, material science, and nuclear physics.
