IPAC2013 - List of Authors (Peralta, E.A.)

Paper	Title	Page
TUPEA079	Experimental Search For Acceleration in the Micro-accelerator Platform	1307
	J.C. McNeur, K.S. Hazra, B. Matthews, E.B. Sozer, G. Travish UCLA, Los Angeles, USA R.J. England, B. Montazeri, K. Soong, Z. Wu SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA E.A. Peralta Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA R.B. Yoder Goucher College, Baltimore, USA
	The results of recent experimental efforts to observe acceleration in the Micro-Accelerator Platform (MAP) are detailed. The MAP is a slab-symmetric dielectric laser accelerator that when side illuminated by an optical laser, accelerates electrons via a standing wave resonance. This structure has been placed in the beamline at the NLCTA experimental hall at SLAC. A 60 MeV electron beam traverses the MAP when it is illuminated by a laser and, using a camera placed around a spectrometer bend magnet, signs of acceleration in the energy spectrum of the beam are searched for. The details of this search, as well as simulations that motivate the search, are elaborated on below.

TUPEA080	Numerical Modeling and Experimental Data Analysis for Dielectric Laser Accelerators	1310
	E.B. Sozer, K.S. Hazra, J.C. McNeur, G. Travish UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA R.J. England, K. Soong SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA E.A. Peralta Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA R.B. Yoder Goucher College, Baltimore, USA
	Funding: Work supported by a grant for the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). Work on Dielectric Laser Accelerators (DLAs) has been ongoing for the past decade. These devices come in a variety of configurations but share the use of lasers as power sources and dielectrics as the primary building material. While these devices have many of the same characteristics and dynamics as conventional accelerating structures, they operate in a dramatically different regime. One version of these DLAs is the Micro Accelerator Platform (MAP): a slab-symmetric device operated with a standing wave (Pi-mode) and powered by a transversely coupled laser. The coupler is essentially a transmissive diffraction grating and therefore reinforced the desired mode. The remainder of the structure is composed of two Distributed Bragg Reflectors (DBRs) which serve to form a resonant cavity in an evacuated bounded by the reflectors. The MAP has now undergone experimental testing at SLAC’s E-163. As with many advanced accelerators, identifying the best data analysis approach demands extensive numerical modelling of the anticipated beam parameters and development of data visualization tools. We present the latest numerical results and data analysis tools developed for dielectric laser acceleration experiments with MAP.

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Experimental Search For Acceleration in the Micro-accelerator Platform

1307

J.C. McNeur, K.S. Hazra, B. Matthews, E.B. Sozer, G. Travish
UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
R.J. England, B. Montazeri, K. Soong, Z. Wu
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
E.A. Peralta
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
R.B. Yoder
Goucher College, Baltimore, USA

The results of recent experimental efforts to observe acceleration in the Micro-Accelerator Platform (MAP) are detailed. The MAP is a slab-symmetric dielectric laser accelerator that when side illuminated by an optical laser, accelerates electrons via a standing wave resonance. This structure has been placed in the beamline at the NLCTA experimental hall at SLAC. A 60 MeV electron beam traverses the MAP when it is illuminated by a laser and, using a camera placed around a spectrometer bend magnet, signs of acceleration in the energy spectrum of the beam are searched for. The details of this search, as well as simulations that motivate the search, are elaborated on below.

TUPEA080

Numerical Modeling and Experimental Data Analysis for Dielectric Laser Accelerators

1310

E.B. Sozer, K.S. Hazra, J.C. McNeur, G. Travish
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
R.J. England, K. Soong
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
E.A. Peralta
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
R.B. Yoder
Goucher College, Baltimore, USA

Funding: Work supported by a grant for the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).
Work on Dielectric Laser Accelerators (DLAs) has been ongoing for the past decade. These devices come in a variety of configurations but share the use of lasers as power sources and dielectrics as the primary building material. While these devices have many of the same characteristics and dynamics as conventional accelerating structures, they operate in a dramatically different regime. One version of these DLAs is the Micro Accelerator Platform (MAP): a slab-symmetric device operated with a standing wave (Pi-mode) and powered by a transversely coupled laser. The coupler is essentially a transmissive diffraction grating and therefore reinforced the desired mode. The remainder of the structure is composed of two Distributed Bragg Reflectors (DBRs) which serve to form a resonant cavity in an evacuated bounded by the reflectors. The MAP has now undergone experimental testing at SLAC’s E-163. As with many advanced accelerators, identifying the best data analysis approach demands extensive numerical modelling of the anticipated beam parameters and development of data visualization tools. We present the latest numerical results and data analysis tools developed for dielectric laser acceleration experiments with MAP.