Dielectric Laser Acceleration
Suggested Reading List for Incoming Undergraduate and Graduate Students
The Laser Acceleration group of the Advanced Accelerator Research Department studies the theory,
numerical design, and experimental verification of laser-driven acceleration concepts. This work rests
on an understanding of:
Fundamentals
Electromagnetism
1. Undergraduate level:
2. Graduate level :
R. K. Wangsness “Electromagnetic Fields”, 2nd Ed. Wiley, 1986.
J. D. Jackson, “Classical Electrodynamics”, 2nd Ed. Wiley, 1975.
Microwave Resonators and Waveguides
3. R. E. Collin, “Foundations for Microwave Engineering”, 2nd Ed., McGraw-Hill, 1992, in particular
chapters 1-7.
Gaussian and Physical Optics
4. L. Diaz, T. Milligan, “Antenna Engineering using Physical Optics”, Artech House, 1996.
Basic Accelerator Physics
5. S. Humphries, Jr. “Principles of Charged Particle Acceleration”, Wiley-Interscience, 1986.
--Hardware-oriented, introductory level
6. H. Wiedemann, “Particle Accelerator Physics”, 3rd Ed. Springer, 2007.
--Physics-oriented, introductory level
7. (M. Reiser, “Theory and Design of Charged Particle Beams”, 2nd Ed. , Wiley, 2008.
--Advanced, includes history of experiments) include this
8. D.A. Edwards, M.J. Syphers, “An Introduction to the Physics of High Energy Accelerators”,
Wiley-Interscience, 1993.
-- Based on graduate level course; physics and applications.
9. T. Wangler, “RF Linear Accelerators”, Wiley-Interscience, 1998.
-- Based on USPAS accelerator course; good coverage of linac physics, longitudinal and
transverse linac dynamics, conventional linac structures.
10. A.W. Chao, M. Tigner,eds., “Handbook of Accelerator Physics and Engineering”,
World Scientific, 1999.
--Collection of accelerator science, technology, and engineering articles from experts in the field.
Laser Acceleration – Basic Principles
11. R. B. Palmer, “A Laser-Driven Grating Linac”, Particle Accelerators, Vol. 11, pp. 81-90, (1980).
12. T. Plettner, “Field-analysis of Vacuum Free-Space Laser Acceleration from Rough-Surface and
Absorbing Thin Boundaries”, SLAC-PUB-13188, (2008).
13. T. Plettner, “Phase-synchronicity conditions from pulse-front tilted laser beams on onedimensional periodic structures and proposed laser-driven deflection’, SLAC-PUB-12458, (2007).
14. R. H. Siemann, “Energy efficiency of laser driven, structure based accelerators”, PRST-AB, 7,
061303, (2004).
Computer-Assisted Design of Accelerators
General Numerical Simulation Techniques
15. FDTD methods text
16. Plane wave decomposition paper
17. D. Carey, “The Optics of Charged Particle Beams”, Harwood, 1992.
18. W. H. Press, et al, “Numerical Recipes in X: The Art of Scientific Computing”, 2nd Ed.,
Cambridge, 1992, in particular chapters 9-19. X=”Fortran” or ”C”.
Design of Optical Structures
19. R. Noble, et al, “Designing Photonic Band Gap Fibers for Particle Acceleration”, in proc. PAC
2007, pp. 3103ff, (2007).
20. J. England, et al, “Single-Mode Coupler Development for Photonic Crystal Structures”, in
preparation for submission to PRST-AB. (2010).
21. T. Plettner, et al, “Proposed few cycle laser particle accelerator structure”, in proc. PAC 2007,
pp. 3175ff, (2007).
22. C. Ng, et al, “Transmission and Radiation of an Accelerating Mode in a Photonic Bandgap Fiber”,
in preparation for submission to PRST-AB, (2010).
23. T. Plettner, R.L. Byer, “Proposed dielectric-based microstructure laser-driven undulator,” Phys.
Rev. ST Accel. Beam 11, 030704 (2008).
24. X. Eddie Lin, “Photonic band gap fiber accelerator”, Physical Review Special Topics –
Accelerators and Beams, 4, 051301 (2001)
25. T. Plettner, R.L. Byer, C. McGuinness, P. Hommelhoff, “Photonic-based laser driven electron
beam deflection and focusing structures,” Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beam 12, 101302 (2009).
26. R. Noble, et al, “Designing Hollow-Core Photonic Band Gap Fibers for Particle Acceleration”, in
preparation for submission to PRST-AB. (2010).
Fabrication of Optical Accelerator Structures and Experimental Methods
Structure Fabrication
27. C. McGuinness, et al, “Accelerating electrons with lasers and photonic crystals”, J. Modern
Optics, 56 (18&19), p.2142, (2009).
Experimental Techniques in Laser-Driven Acceleration
28. R. J. England, et al., "Experiment to Detect Accelerating Modes in a Photonic Bandgap Fiber,"
Proceedings of the 2008 Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, AIP Conf. Proc. 1086, 550555 (2009).
29. C. M. S. Sears, et al, “Phase stable net acceleration of electrons from a two-stage optical
accelerator”, PRST-AB, 11, 101301, (2008).
30. C. M. S. Sears, et al, “Production and characterization of attosecond electron bunch trains”,
PRST-AB, 11, 061301, (2008).
31. T. Plettner, et al, “Inverse transition radiation laser acceleration experiments at SLAC”, in proc.
PAC 2007, pp. 3172ff, (2007).