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ACHIP Year 7 (FY '22) Publications

Tomas Chlouba, Roy Shiloh, Pontus Forsberg, Mathias Hamberg, Mikael Karlsson, Martin Kozák, and Peter Hommelhoff, “Diamond-Based Dielectric Laser Acceleration”, Opt. Express 30(1), 505-510 (2022)

R. Shiloh, T. Chlouba, and P. Hommelhoff, “Quantum-Coherent Light-Electron Interaction in a Scanning Electron Microscope”, Physical Review Letters Vol. 128, 235301, June 6, 2022

T. Chlouba, R. Shiloh, P. Forsberg, M. Hamberg, M. Karlsson, M. Koz and P. Hommelhoff, “Diamond-based Dielectric Laser Acceleration”, Optics Express Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 505-510, January 3, 2022

ACHIP Year 6 (FY '21) Publications

R. Shiloh, T. Chlouba and P. Hommelhoff, “Experimental Considerations in Electron Beam transport on a Nanophotonic Chip Using Alternating Phase Focusing”, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, Vol 40, Issue 1, 010602, Published Online December 21, 2021

Y. Morimoto, P. Hommelhoff, and L. B. Madsen, "Coherent scattering of an optically modulated electron beam by atoms", Phys. Rev. A 103, 043110 (2020)

R. J. England invited USPAS lecture at MIT on “Future Accelerators that might be used in Industry”; June 14th, 2021

A. Szczepkowicz, L. Schachter, and R. J. England, “Frequency domain calculation of Smith-Purcell radiation for metallic and dielectric gratings,” Applied Optics 59, 11146-11155 (8 Dec 2020)

Z. Zhao, D. S. Black, T. W. Hughes, Y. Miao, O. Solgaard, R. L. Byer and S. Fan, "Design of a multi-channel photonic crystal dielectric laser accelerator", Photonics Research, vol. 8, pp. 1586-1598 (2020)

A. Szczepkowicz, L. Schachter, and R. J. England, “Internal Smith-Purcell radiation and its interplay with Cherenkov diffraction radiation in silicon - a combined time and frequency domain numerical study,” in preparation (2021)

D. S. Black, Z. Zhao, K. J. Leedle, Y. Miao, R. L. Byer, S. Fan, and O. Solgaard, "Operating modes of dual-grating dielectric laser accelerators", Physical Review - Accelerator and Beams, vol. 23, art. No. 114001 (2020)

Z. Zhao, X. Q. Sun, and S. Fan, "Quantum entanglement and modulation enhancement of free-electron bound-electron interaction", Physical Review Letters, vol. 126, art. No. 233402 (2021)

Z. Zhao, K. J. Leedle, D. S. Black, O. Solgaard, R. L. Byer, and S. Fan, “Electron pulse compression with optical beat note”, Physical Review Letters (22 September 2021)

Shiloh†, Illmer†, Chlouba†, Yousefi, Schönenberger, Niedermayer, Mittelbach, Hommelhoff, “Electron phase space control in photonic chip-based particle acceleration” Nature, 10.1038/s41586-021-03812-9 (22 September 2021)

R. Dahan†, A. Gorlach†, U. Haeusler†, A. Karnieli†, O. Eyal, P. Yousefi, M. Segev. A. Arie, G. Eisenstein, P. Hommelhoff, I. Kaminer, “Imprinting the quantum statistics of photons on free electrons”, Science 373 6561 (17 September 27, 2021)

A. Li, Y. Pan, P. Dienstbier, and P. Hommelhoff, “Quantum Interference Visibility Spectroscopy in Two-Color Photoemission from Tungsten Needle Tips“, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 126, 137403, April 2nd, 2021

Uwe Niedermayer, Jan Lautenschläger, Thilo Egenolf, and Oliver Boine-Frankenheim; Design of a Scalable Integrated Nanophotonic Electron Accelerator on a Chip, Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 024022 (12 August 2021)

Uwe Niedermayer, Dylan S. Black, Kenneth J. Leedle, Yu Miao, Robert L. Byer, and Olav Solgaard; Low-Energy-Spread Attosecond Bunching and Coherent Electron Acceleration in Dielectric Nanostructures, Phys. Rev. Applied 15, L021002 (11 Feb 2021)

U. Niedermayer, T. Egenolf, and O. Boine-Frankenheim; “Three Dimensional Alternating-Phase Focusing for Dielectric-Laser Electron Accelerators“, Phys. Rev. Lett., 125, 164801 (13 Oct 2020)

D.Vercruysse, N.V.Sapra, K.Y.Yang, J.Vuckovic, "Inverse-designed photonic crystal circuits for optical beam steering," ACS Photonics (in press); 17 Jul 2021

H. Cankaya  et al. "Temporal and Spatial Challenges for Electron Acceleration inside Dielectric Laser Accelerators in the Relativistic Regime," CLEO, 2021, 9–14 May, STh1C.1 (Invited Talk).

C. Mahnke  et al. "Synchronizable, low-jitter, picosecond Ho: fiber NALM oscillator for Ho: YLF amplifier driven electron acceleration," CLEO, 2021, 9–14 May, JTh3A.10. 

C. Mahnke  et al. "Long term stable, synchronizable, low noise picosecond Ho:fiber NALM oscillator for Ho:YLF amplifier seeding,” (Manuscript in preparation); May 2021

C. Mahnke  et al. "Near Infrared laser system for dielectric laser acceleration experiments at SINBAD,” IPAC 1, 24–28 May 2021.

D. Zhang, et al. "THz-Enhanced DC Ultrafast Electron Diffractometer,” Ultrafast Science,  (11 Aug 2021)

B. Hermann et. al.; “Electron beam transverse phase space tomography using nanofabricated wire scanners with submicrometer resolution” Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 24, 022802 ; 15 Feb 2021

A. Ody, S. Crisp, P. Musumeci, D. Cesar, and R. J. England. "SHarD: A beam dynamics simulation code for dielectric laser accelerators based on spatial harmonic field expansion." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 165635 (2021) doi:10.1016/j.nima.2021.165635

Robert L. Byer – “Accelerator on a Chip – Prospects for a Table Top X-Ray Laser”,  OSSC Invited Talk -  Nov 18th, 2020.

J. Vuckovic – “Inverse designed on-chip laser driven particle accelerator” – Frontiers in Physics Invited Talk  - Oct 2020

R. J. England and L. Schachter, ”Beam-beam interaction in a DLA based collider,” submitted; awaiting reviews.

Phase Space Tomography with Wire Scanner Tool for 4d transverse phase space measurement for sub-um sized beams (ultra-relativistic); PSI Manuscript submitted to PRAB .

S. Crisp, A. Ody, P. Musumeci and R. J. England. Resonant phase matching by oblique illumination of a dielectric laser accelerator; Submitted to PRAB. will send the link as soon as it is posted on the arXiv

Y. Aviv, K. Wang, R. Dahan, P. Broaddus, Y. Miao, D. Black, K. Leedle, R. L. Byer, O. Solgaard, R. J. England, and I. Kaminer, “The quantum nature of dielectric laser accelerators,” accepted in PRX (2021).

R. Shiloh, T. Chlouba, P. Yousefi, and P. Hommelhoff, “Particle acceleration using top-illuminated nanophotonic dielectric structures”, Optics Express Vol. 29, Issue 10, pp. 14403-14411, 27 Apr 2021

ACHIP Year 5 (FY '20) Publications

Umit Demirbas, Huseyin Cankaya, Yi Hua, Jelto Thesinga, Mikhail Pergament, Franz X Kärtner, “20-mJ, sub-ps pulses at up to 70 W average power from a cryogenic Yb: YLF regenerative amplifier”, Optics Express 28 (2), 2466-2479

Y. Morimoto, P. Hommelhoff, "Intracycle interference in the interaction of laser and electron beams", Phys. Rev. Research, Vol. 2, No. 4 (2020).

Huseyin Cankaya “Dispersion management for optical parametric amplifiers in mid-infrared”, Turkish Journal of Physics 44 (6), 539-553

Rasmus Ischebeck et al;   “Characterization of the Electron Beam in the ACHIP Chamber in SwissFEL”;  2020 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1596 012019 (2020)

Dongfang Zhang, Moein Fakhari, Huseyin Cankaya, Anne-Laure Calendron, Nicholas H Matlis, Franz X Kärtner, “Cascaded Multicycle Terahertz-Driven Ultrafast Electron Acceleration and Manipulation”, Physical Review X 10 (1), 011067

B. Hermann et al.; “Diagnostics for Electron Pulse Trains at SwissFEL Obtained by Energy Modulation in a Laser-Driven Dielectric Structure”; 2020 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1596 012046

Tan, S., Deng, H., Urbanek, K. E., Miao, Y., Zhao, Z., Harris, J. S., & Byer, R. L. (2020). “Low- loss GaO x-core/SiO 2-cladding planar waveguides on Si substrate”. Optics Express, 28(8), 12475-12486

G.L. Orlandi et al.; “Nanofabricated free-standing wire scanners for beam diagnostics with submicrometer resolution”; Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 23, 042802; 16 April 2020

Zhao, Z., & Fan, S. (2020). “Design principles of apodized grating couplers. Journal of Lightwave Technology”, 38(16), 4435-4446

M. Kellermeier et al.; “Towards additive manufacturing of dielectric accelerating structures”; 2020 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1596 012020

Zhao, Z., Sun, X. Q., & Fan, S. (2020). “Quantum entanglement and modulation enhancement of free-electron-bound-electron interaction”. arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.11396

 Alexey Gorlach, Aviv Karnieli, Raphael Dahan, Eliahu Cohen, Avi Pe’er, and Ido Kaminer, “Ultrafast non-destructive measurement of the quantum state of light using free electrons”

Zhao, Z., Black, D. S., England, R. J., Hughes, T. W., Miao, Y., Solgaard, O., Byer, R. L., & Fan, S. (2020). “Design of a multi-channel photonic crystal dielectric laser accelerator”. Photonics Research, 8, 1586-1598

Raphael Dahan, Saar Nehemia, Michael Shentcis, Ori Reinhardt, Yuval Adiv, Xihang Shi, Orr Be’er, Morgan H. Lynch, Yaniv Kurman, Kangpeng Wang and Ido Kaminer, “Resonant Phase- Matching between a Light Wave and a Free-Electron Wavefunction”, Nature Physics, October, 2020

F. Mayet et al.: “Longitudinal phase space synthesis with tailored 3D-printable dielectric-lined waveguides”, Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 23, 121302, 14th December 2020

Yuval Adiv, Kangpeng Wang, Raphael Dahan, Payton Broaddus, Yu Miao, Dylan Black, Kenneth Leedle, Olav Solgaard, Joel England, and Ido Kaminer, “Observation of the Quantum Nature of Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration”

W. Kuropka: “Studies towards Acceleration of Relativistic Electron Beams in Laser-driven Dielectric Microstructures”, PhD Thesis, University of Hamburg, defended May 20th, 2020

T. Egenolf, PhD thesis “Intensity Effects in Dielectric Laser Accelerator Structures”, TU Darmstadt, defended on 10/9/2020

B. Marchetti et al.: “SINBAD-ARES – A Photo-injector for external injection experiments in novel accelerators at DESY”, Journal of Physics Conf. Series, September 2020

U. Niedermayer “A pocket-sized particle accelerator”, TU Darmstadt hoch3 FORSCHEN, 12/17/2020, (available in German and English)

W. Kuropka et al.: “Parameter studies on dielectric gratings as electron accelerators”, Journal of Physics Conf. Series, September 2020

U. Niedermayer et al, “Challenges in simulating beam dynamics of dielectric laser acceleration”, International Journal of Modern Physics A 34 1942031 (Nov 2019)

Dylan S. Black, Zhexin Zhao, Kenneth J. Leedle, Yu Miao, Robert L. Byer, Shanhui Fan, and Olav Solgaard, “Operating modes of dual-grating dielectric laser accelerators,” Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, 23(11):114001, 11 (2020),

T. Hirano et al., “A compact electron source for the dielectric laser accelerator,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 116, 161106 (2020).

T. Egenolf, U. Niedermayer, and O. Boine-Frankenheim, “Tracking with wakefields in dielectric laser acceleration grating structures“, Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 23, 054402 (2020)

H. Deng, et al., “Ga2O3-Based Optical Applications: Gallium Oxide for High-Power Optical Applications,” Advanced Optical Materials 8, 1901522 (2020).

T. Egenolf and U. Niedermayer, “Analytical energy spectra and wake effects for relativistic dielectric laser accelerators“ J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1596 012017 (2020)

N. Sapra, et al. “On-chip integrated laser driven particle accelerator,” Science 367 (6473), 79 (2020).

U. Niedermayer, T. Egenolf, and O. Boine-Frankenheim, “Three Dimensional Alternating- Phase Focusing for Dielectric-Laser Electron Accelerators“, Phys. Rev. Lett., 125, 164801 (2020)

Huseyin Cankaya, Umit Demirbas, Yi Hua, Michael Hemmer, Luis E Zapata, Mikhail Pergament, Franz X Kärtner, “190-mJ cryogenically-cooled Yb: YLF amplifier system at 1019.7 nm”, OSA continuum 2 (12), 3547-3553

N. Schönenberger, et al., “Generation and Characterization of Attosecond Microbunched Electron Pulse Trains via Dielectric Laser Acceleration,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 264803 (2019).

D. S. Black, et al., “Net Acceleration and Direct Measurement of Attosecond Electron Pulses in a Silicon Dielectric Laser Accelerator,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 264802 (2019).

ACHIP Year 4 (FY '19) Publications

D. Vercruysse, N. V. Sapra, L. Su, J. Vučković. “Dispersion engineering with photonic inverse design,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 1-6, March-April 2020, Art no. 8301706.

K. Y. Yang, J. Skarda, M. Cotrufo, A. Dutt, G. H. Ahn, D. Vercruysse, S. Fan, A. Alù, J. Vučković, “Inverse-designed photonic circuits for fully passive, bias-free Kerr-based nonreciprocal transmission and routing,” arXiv:1905.04818 (under revision in Nature Photonics).

N.V. Sapra, K.Y. Yang, D. Vercruysse, K.J. Leedle, D. Black, L. Su, R. Trivedi, Y. Miao, O. Solgaard, R.L. Byer, J. Vuckovic, “On-chip integrated laser-driven particle accelerator”, arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.12822, 2019/5/30, Science  03 Jan 2020: Vol. 367, Issue 6473, pp. 79-83

*Sapra, N.V., Vercruysse, D., Su, L., Yang, K.Y., Skarda, J., Piggott, A.Y. and Vučković, J., 2019. Inverse design and demonstration of broadband grating couplers. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 25(3), pp.1-7.

*Schönenberger, N., Mittelbach, A., Yousefi, P., McNeur, J., Hommelhoff, P., "Generation and Characterization of Attosecond Micro-Bunched Pulse Trains via Dielectric Laser Acceleration", Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 264803 – Published 26 December 2019

C. Dory, D. Vercruysse, K. Y. Yang, N. V. Sapra, A. E. Rugar, S. Sun, D. M. Lukin, A. Y. Piggott, J. L. Zhang, M. Radulaski, K. G. Lagoudakis, L. Su, J. Vučković, “Inverse-designed diamond photonics,” Nature Communications 10, 3309 (2019). 

* Tafel, A., Wu, M., Spiecker, E., Hommelhoff, P., & Ristein, J., 2019. "Fabrication and structural characterization of diamond-coated tungsten tips”, Diamond and Related Materials 97, p.107446.

*Tafel, A., Meier, S., Ristein, J., Hommelhoff, P., "Femtosecond laser-induced electron emission from nanodiamond-coated tungsten needle tips", Physical Review Letters 123, 146802 - Published 2 October 2019.

Tan, S., Zhao, Z., Urbanek, K., Hughes, T., Lee, Y.J., Fan, S., Harris, J.S. and Byer, R.L., (2019) “Silicon nitride waveguide as a power delivery component for on-chip dielectric laser accelerators.” Optics letters, 44(2), pp.335-338.

*Hughes, T. W., Williamson, I. A., Minkov, M., & Fan, S. (2019). Forward-Mode Differentiation of Maxwell's Equations. ACS Photonics 2019, 6, 11, 3010–3016. Publication Date: October 21, 2019

D. Vercruysse, N. V. Sapra, L. Su, R. Trivedi, J. Vučković. “Analytical level set fabrication constraints for inverse design,” Scientific Report 9, 8999 (2019).

*Hughes, T. W., *Williamson, I. A., Minkov, M., & Fan, S. (2019). Wave Physics as an Analog Recurrent Neural Network. Science Advances, Accepted (2019).

*Hughes, T. W., England, R. J., & Fan, S. (2019). Reconfigurable Photonic Circuit for Controlled Power Delivery to Laser-Driven Accelerators on a Chip. Physical Review Applied, 11(6), 064014.

*Hughes, Tyler W., Momchil Minkov, Ian AD Williamson, and Shanhui Fan. "Adjoint method and inverse design for nonlinear nanophotonic devices." ACS Photonics 5, no. 12 (2018): 4781-4787.

*Benedikt Hermann, Simona Bettoni, Uwe Niedermayer, Eduard Prat, and Rasmus Ischebeck. “Laser-Driven Modulation of Electron Beams in a Dielectric Micro-Structure for X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers”  Sci Rep 9, 19773 (2019).

*Yousefi, P., Schönenberger, N., Mcneur, J., Kozák, M., Niedermayer, U. and Hommelhoff, P., 2019. Dielectric laser electron acceleration in a dual pillar grating with a distributed Bragg reflector. Optics letters, 44(6), pp.1520-1523.

D. Zhang, A. Fallahi, M. Hemmer, X. Wu, M. Fakhari, Y. Hua, H. Cankaya, A-L. Calendron, L.E. Zapata, N.H. Matlis, F.X. Kärtner “Femtosecond phase control in high-field terahertz-driven ultrafast electron sources”, Optica, 2019. 6: p 872.

Black, D.S., Leedle, K.J., Miao, Y., Niedermayer, U., Byer, R.L., Solgaard, O. and ACHIP Collaboration, 2019. Laser-driven electron lensing in silicon microstructures. Physical Review Letters, 122(10), p.104801 (2019).

D.S. Black, U. Niedermayer, Y. Miao, Z. Zhao, O. Solgaard, K.J. Leedle, R.L. Byer, “Net Acceleration and Direct Measurement of Attosecond Electron Pulses in a Silicon Dielectric Laser Accelerator”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 264802 – Published 26 December 2019

U. Niedermayer et al. [ACHIP-wide publication], “Challenges in Simulating Beam Dynamics in Dielectric Laser Acceleration”, proc. of ICAP, Key West, FL, USA, 2018, accepted for publication in IJMPA, (2019)

*D. Bar-Lev, R. J. England, K. P. Wootton, W. Liu, A. Gover, R. L. Byer, K. J. Leedle, D. S. Black, and J. Scheuer, "Design of a plasmonic metasurface laser accelerator with a tapered phase velocity for subrelativistic particles," Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 22, 021303 (2019).

N.V. Sapra, K.Y. Yang, D. Vercruysse, K.J. Leedle, D. Black, L. Su, R. Trivedi, Y. Miao, O. Solgaard, R.L. Byer, J. Vuckovic, “Inverse design and demonstration of on-chip laser driven particle accelerators (Conference Presentation), Novel Optical Systems, Methods, and Applications XXII, Volume:11105, Pages:111050Q, 2019/9/9.

*Dorda, U., Marchetti, B., Zhu, J., Mayet, F., Kuropka, W., Vinatier, T., Vashchenko, G., Galaydych, K., Walker, P.A., Marx, D. and Brinkmann, R., 2018. Status and objectives of the dedicated accelerator R&D facility “SINBAD” at DESY. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 909, pp.239-242.

T. Egenolf, O. Boine-Frankenheim, and U. Niedermayer, “Intensity limits by wakefields in relativistic dielectric laser acceleration grating structures", proc. of AAC, Breckenridge CO, USA, 2018

*R. J. England, A. Ody, and Z. Huang, "Transverse forces in planar symmetric dielectric laser-driven accelerators," in Proceedings of Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, Breckenridge, CO (2018).

*Yousefi, P., McNeur, J., Kozák, M., Niedermayer, U., Gannott, F., Lohse, O., Boine-Frankenheim, O. and Hommelhoff, P., 2018. Silicon dual pillar structure with a distributed Bragg reflector for dielectric laser accelerators: Design and fabrication. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 909, pp.221-223.

*Kuropka, W., Aßmann, R., Dorda, U. and Mayet, F., 2018. Simulation of deflecting structures for dielectric laser driven accelerators. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 909, pp.196-198.

*Kuropka, W., Mayet, F., Aßmann, R. and Dorda, U., 2018. Full PIC simulation of a first ACHIP experiment@ SINBAD. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 909, pp.193-195.

*Niedermayer, U., Egenolf, T., Boine-Frankenheim, O. and Hommelhoff, P., 2018. Alternating-Phase Focusing for Dielectric-Laser Acceleration. Physical review letters, 121(21), p.214801.

*Cesar, D., Maxson, J., Shen, X., Wootton, K.P., Tan, S., England, R.J. and Musumeci, P., 2018. Enhanced energy gain in a dielectric laser accelerator using a tilted pulse front laser. Optics express, 26(22), pp.29216-29224.

*H. Deng, K. J. Leedle, Y. Miao, D. S. Black, K. E. Urbanek, … J. S. Harris, “Novel Materials for Dielectric Laser Accelerators.” Manuscript submitted (2019).

Zhao, Z., Black, D. S., Hughes, T. W., Miao, Y., Solgaard, O., Byer, R. L., & Fan, S. “Design of a multi-channel photonic crystal dielectric laser accelerator.” (submitted to Physical Review Applied)

ACHIP Year 3 (FY '18) Publications

*N. Bell and L. Phillips, "Generation of Flat Ultra-Low Emittance Beams," Proceedings of International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'18), Vancouver, BC, Canada (2018).

*Cesar, D., Musumeci, P. and England, J., 2018, August. AII Optical Control of Beam Dynamics in a DLA. In 2018 IEEE Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop (AAC) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

*Cesar, D., Maxson, J., Musumeci, P., Shen, X., England, R.J. and Wootton, K.P., 2018. Optical design for increased interaction length in a high gradient dielectric laser accelerator. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 909, pp.252-256.

*Cesar, D., Custodio, S., Maxson, J., Musumeci, P., Shen, X., Threlkeld, E., England, R.J., Hanuka, A., Makasyuk, I.V., Peralta, E.A. and Wootton, K.P., 2018. High-field nonlinear optical response and phase control in a dielectric laser accelerator. Communications Physics, 1(1), p.46.

*R.J. England, Z. Huang, “Dielectric Accelerators and Other Non-Plasma Accelerator Based Compact Light Sources”, in Proc. 60th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on Future Light Sources (FLS'18), Shanghai, China, Mar. 2018, pp. 74-78, doi:10.18429/JACoW-FLS2018-WEA1PL02

R. J. England and P. Hommelhoff, "Dielectric Laser Acceleration of Electrons," in Applications of Laser Driven Particle Acceleration, Chapter 3, CRC Press - Taylor and Francis Group (June 2018).

Fallahi, A., Yahaghi, A. and Kärtner, F.X., 2018. MITHRA 1.0: A full-wave simulation tool for free electron lasers. Computer Physics Communications, 228, pp.192-208.

*Hughes, T.W., Tan, S., Zhao, Z., Sapra, N.V., Leedle, K.J., Deng, H., Miao, Y., Black, D.S., Solgaard, O., Harris, J.S. and Vuckovic, J., 2018. On-chip laser-power delivery system for dielectric laser accelerators. Physical Review Applied, 9(5), p.054017.

*Hughes, T.W., Minkov, M., Shi, Y. and Fan, S., 2018. Training of photonic neural networks through in situ backpropagation and gradient measurement. Optica, 5(7), pp.864-871.

*Kozák, M., Eckstein, T., Schönenberger, N. and Hommelhoff, P., 2018. Inelastic ponderomotive scattering of electrons at a high-intensity optical travelling wave in vacuum. Nature Physics, 14(2), p.121.

*Kozák, M., McNeur, J., Schönenberger, N., Illmer, J., Li, A., Tafel, A., Yousefi, P., Eckstein, T. and Hommelhoff, P., 2018. Ultrafast scanning electron microscope applied for studying the interaction between free electrons and optical near-fields of periodic nanostructures. Journal of Applied Physics, 124(2), p.023104.

*Kozák, M., Schönenberger, N. and Hommelhoff, P., 2018. Ponderomotive generation and detection of attosecond free-electron pulse trains. Physical review letters, 120(10), p.103203.

*Leedle, K.J., Black, D.S., Miao, Y., Urbanek, K.E., Ceballos, A., Deng, H., Harris, J.S., Solgaard, O. and Byer, R.L., 2018. Phase-dependent laser acceleration of electrons with symmetrically driven silicon dual pillar gratings. Optics letters, 43(9), pp.2181-2184.

Lemery, F., Floettmann, K., Piot, P., Kärtner, F.X. and Aßmann, R., 2018. Synchronous acceleration with tapered dielectric-lined waveguides. Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, 21(5), p.051302.

*Mayet, F., Aßmann, R., Dorda, U. and Kuropka, W., 2018. Using short drive laser pulses to achieve net focusing forces in tailored dual grating dielectric structures. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 909, pp.208-212.

*Mayet, F., Aßmann, R., Boedewadt, J., Brinkmann, R., Dorda, U., Kuropka, W., Lechner, C., Marchetti, B. and Zhu, J., 2018. Simulations and plans for possible DLA experiments at SINBAD. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 909, pp.213-216.

*Mayet, F., Aßmann, R., Dorda, U. and Kuropka, W., 2018, September. Simulation of phase-dependent transverse focusing in dielectric laser accelerator based lattices. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 1067, No. 4, p. 042002).

*Mayet, F., Aßmann, R., Dorda, U. and Kuropka, W., 2018, September. First order sensitivity analysis of electron acceleration in dual grating type dielectric laser accelerator structures. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 1067, No. 4, p. 042003).

*McNeur, J., Kozák, M., Schönenberger, N., Leedle, K.J., Deng, H., Ceballos, A., Hoogland, H., Ruehl, A., Hartl, I., Holzwarth, R. and Solgaard, O., 2018. Elements of a dielectric laser accelerator. Optica, 5(6), pp.687-690.

*U. Niedermayer, T. Egenolf, O. Boine-Frankenheim, and P. Hommelhoff, “Alternating Phase Focusing for Dielectric Laser Acceleration”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 214801 (2018)

*Ody, A., England, R.J. and Huang, Z., 2018. Simulation of a dielectric deflecting structure for short-wavelength radiation. Proceedings of the IEEE. Breckenridge, CO: IEEE, p.4.

Simakov, E., England, R., Gilbertson, R., Herman, M., Pilania, G., Shchegolkov, D., Walker, E., Weis, E. and Wootton, K., 2018, June. Possibilities for Fabricating Polymer Dielectric Laser Accelerator Structures with Additive Manufacturing. In 9th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf.(IPAC'18), Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 29-May 4, 2018 (pp. 4671-4674). JACOW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland.

*Su, L., Trivedi, R., Sapra, N.V., Piggott, A.Y., Vercruysse, D. and Vučković, J., 2018. Fully-automated optimization of grating couplers. Optics express, 26(4), pp.4023-4034.

*L. Su, A. Y. Piggott, N. V. Sapra, J. Petykiewicz, and J. Vuckovic, "Inverse design and demonstration of a compact on-chip narrowband three-channel wavelength demultiplexer," ACS Photonics, 5(2), 301-305 (2017).

Wang, J., Shi, Y., Hughes, T., Zhao, Z. and Fan, S., 2018. Adjoint-based optimization of active nanophotonic devices. Optics express, 26(3), pp.3236-3248.

*Ye, H., Trippel, S., Di Fraia, M., Fallahi, A., Mücke, O.D., Kärtner, F.X. and Küpper, J., 2018. Velocity-Map Imaging for Emittance Characterization of Multiphoton Electron Emission from a Gold Surface. Physical Review Applied, 9(4), p.044018.

*Zhang, D., Fallahi, A., Hemmer, M., Wu, X., Fakhari, M., Hua, Y., Cankaya, H., Calendron, A.L., Zapata, L.E., Matlis, N.H. and Kärtner, F.X., 2018. Segmented terahertz electron accelerator and manipulator (STEAM). Nature photonics, 12(6), p.336.

*Zhao, Z., Hughes, T.W., Tan, S., Deng, H., Sapra, N., England, R.J., Vuckovic, J., Harris, J.S., Byer, R.L. and Fan, S., 2018. Design of a tapered slot waveguide dielectric laser accelerator for sub-relativistic electrons. Optics express, 26(18), pp.22801-22815.

ACHIP Year 2 (FY ’17) Publications

*Egenolf, T., Boine-Frankenheim, O. and Niedermayer, U., 2017, July. Simulation of DLA grating structures in the frequency domain. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 874, No. 1, p. 012040).

Fakhari, M., Fallahi, A. and Kärtner, F.X., 2017. THz cavities and injectors for compact electron acceleration using laser-driven THz sources. Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, 20(4), p.041302.

Hughes, T., “DLA Laser Coupling Simulation Software,” https://github.com/twhughes/ DLA-Laser-Coupling-Simulation-Software (2017).

*Hughes, T., Veronis, G., Wootton, K.P., England, R.J. and Fan, S., 2017. Method for computationally efficient design of dielectric laser accelerator structures. Optics express, 25(13), pp.15414-15427.

*Kozák, M., Beck, P., Deng, H., McNeur, J., Schönenberger, N., Gaida, C., Stutzki, F., Gebhardt, M., Limpert, J., Ruehl, A. and Hartl, I., 2017. Acceleration of sub-relativistic electrons with an evanescent optical wave at a planar interface. Optics express, 25(16), pp.19195-19204.

*Kozák, M., McNeur, J., Leedle, K.J., Deng, H., Schönenberger, N., Ruehl, A., Hartl, I., Harris, J.S., Byer, R.L. and Hommelhoff, P., 2017. Optical gating and streaking of free electrons with sub-optical cycle precision. Nature communications, 8, p.14342.

Kozák, M., Förster, M., McNeur, J., Schönenberger, N., Leedle, K., Deng, H., Harris, J.S., Byer, R.L. and Hommelhoff, P., 2017. Dielectric laser acceleration of sub-relativistic electrons by few-cycle laser pulses. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 865, pp.84-86.

Kroetz, P., Ruehl, A., Calendron, A.L., Chatterjee, G., Cankaya, H., Murari, K., Kaertner, F.X., Hartl, I. and Miller, R.J.D., 2017. Study on laser characteristics of Ho: YLF regenerative amplifiers: Operation regimes, gain dynamics, and highly stable operation points. Applied Physics B, 123(4), p.126.

*Niedermayer, U., Egenolf, T. and Boine-Frankenheim, O., 2017. Beam dynamics analysis of dielectric laser acceleration using a fast 6d tracking scheme. Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, 20(11), p.111302.

*Niedermayer, U., Boine-Frankenheim, O. and Egenolf, T., 2017, July. Designing a dielectric laser accelerator on a chip. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 874, No. 1, p. 012041).

*Ody, A., Musumeci, P., Maxson, J., Cesar, D., England, R.J. and Wootton, K.P., 2017. Flat electron beam sources for DLA accelerators. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 865, pp.75-83.

*Piggott, A.Y., Petykiewicz, J., Su, L. and Vučković, J., 2017. Fabrication-constrained nanophotonic inverse design. Scientific reports, 7(1), p.1786.

Putnam, W.P., Hobbs, R.G., Keathley, P.D., Berggren, K.K. and Kärtner, F.X., 2017. Optical-field-controlled photoemission from plasmonic nanoparticles. nature physics, 13(4), p.335.

*Su, L., Piggott, A.Y., Sapra, N.V., Petykiewicz, J. and Vuckovic, J., 2017. Inverse design and demonstration of a compact on-chip narrowband three-channel wavelength demultiplexer. Acs Photonics, 5(2), pp.301-305.

Prat, E., Bettoni, S., Calvi, M., Dehler, M., Frei, F., Hommelhoff, P., Kozak, M., McNeur, J., Loch, C.O., Reiche, S. and Romann, A., 2017. Outline of a dielectric laser acceleration experiment at SwissFEL. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 865, pp.87-90.

*K.P. Wootton, D. B. Cesar, B.M. Cowan, A. Hanuka, I.V. Makasyuk, J. Maxson, E.A. Peralta, K. Soong, Z. Wu, R.L. Byer, P. Musumeci and R.J. England, “Recent Demonstration of Record High Gradients in Dielectric Laser Accelerating Structures”, AIP Conf. Proc., 1812, 060006 (2017) (Proc. 17th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, National Harbor, MD, USA, 31st July – 5th August 2016) (SLAC-PUB-16886).

*K.P. Wootton, D.B. Cesar, C. Lee, I.V. Makasyuk, J. Maxson, P. Musumeci and R.J. England, “Dielectric Laser Acceleration and Focusing Using Short-Pulse Lasers with an Arbitrary Phase Distribution”, AIP Conf. Proc., 1812, 060001 (2017) (Proc. 17th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, National Harbor, MD, USA, 31st July – 5th August 2016) (SLAC-PUB-16887).

ACHIP Year 1 (FY ’16) Publications

Leedle, K.J., Ceballos, A., Deng, H., Solgaard, O., Pease, R.F., Byer, R.L. and Harris, J.S., 2015. Dielectric laser acceleration of sub-100 keV electrons with silicon dual-pillar grating structures. Optics letters, 40(18), pp.4344-4347.

R. J. England, "Review of Laser-Driven Photonic Structure Based Particle Acceleration," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 22 (2), 4401007 (2016).

R. J. England, A. Kwiatkowski, C-K. Ng, Z. Wu, "Input Coupling for Photonic Bandgap Fiber Accelerators," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 22 (2), 4401109 (2016).

Kozák, M., McNeur, J., Leedle, K. J.,Deng, H., Schönenberger, N., Ruehl, A., Hartl, I., Hoogland, H., Holzwarth, R., Harris, J.S., Byer, R. L., and Hommelhoff, P. Transverse and longitudinal characterization of electron beams using interaction with optical near-fields, Opt. Lett. 41, 3435-3438 (2016).

Kroetz P, Ruehl A, Murari K, Cankaya H, Kärtner FX, Hartl I, Miller RD. Numerical study of spectral shaping in high energy Ho: YLF amplifiers. Optics express. 2016 May 2;24(9):9905-21.

Li P, Ruehl A, Bransley C, Hartl I. Low noise, tunable Ho: fiber soliton oscillator for Ho: YLF amplifier seeding. Laser Physics Letters. 2016 May 17;13(6):065104.

*McNeur, J., Kozak, M., Ehberger, D., Schönenberger, N., Tafel, A., Li, A. and Hommelhoff, P., 2016. A miniaturized electron source based on dielectric laser accelerator operation at higher spatial harmonics and a nanotip photoemitter. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 49(3), p.034006.

*Murari, K., Cankaya, H., Kroetz, P., Cirmi, G., Li, P., Ruehl, A., Hartl, I. and Kärtner, F.X., 2016. Intracavity gain shaping in millijoule-level, high gain Ho: YLF regenerative amplifiers. Optics letters, 41(6), pp.1114-1117.

*Murari, K., Stein, G.J., Cankaya, H., Debord, B., Gérôme, F., Cirmi, G., Mücke, O.D., Li, P., Ruehl, A., Hartl, I. and Hong, K.H., 2016. Kagome-fiber-based pulse compression of mid-infrared picosecond pulses from a Ho: YLF amplifier. Optica, 3(8), pp.816-822.

*Wootton, K.P., McNeur, J. and Leedle, K.J., 2016. Dielectric laser accelerators: designs, experiments, and applications. In Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology: Volume 9: Technology and Applications of Advanced Accelerator Concepts (pp. 105-126).

Wootton, K.P., Wu, Z., Cowan, B.M., Hanuka, A., Makasyuk, I.V., Peralta, E.A., Soong, K., Byer, R.L. and England, R.J., 2016. Demonstration of acceleration of relativistic electrons at a dielectric microstructure using femtosecond laser pulses. Optics letters, 41(12), pp.2696-2699.

K.P. Wootton, D. B. Cesar, B.M. Cowan, A. Hanuka, I.V. Makasyuk, J. Maxson, E.A. Peralta, K. Soong, Z. Wu, R.L. Byer, P. Musumeci and R.J. England, “Recent Demonstration of Record High Gradients in Dielectric Laser Accelerating Structures”, AIP Conf. Proc., 1812, 060006 (2017) (Proc. 17th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, National Harbor, MD, USA, 31st July – 5th August 2016) (SLAC-PUB-16886).

Z. Wu, C. Lee, K. P. Wootton, C-K. Ng, M. Qi, R. J. England, "A Traveling-Wave Forward Coupler Design for a New Accelerating Mode in a Silicon Woodpile Accelerator," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 22 (2), 4400909 (2016).

Fallahi, A., Fakhari, M., Yahaghi, A., Arrieta, M. and Kärtner, F.X., 2016. Short electron bunch generation using single-cycle ultrafast electron guns. Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, 19(8), p.081302.

A selection of relevant papers published prior to the start of the ACHIP Collaboration

S. Borrelli, G. Orlandi, M. Bednarzik, C. David, E. Ferrari, V. Guzenko, C. Ozkan-Loch, E. Prat & R. Ischebeck, "Generation and measurement of sub-micrometer relativistic electron beams.” Communications Physics1, Article number: 52 (2018).

K. P. Wootton, et al., "Towards a Fully Integrated Accelerator on a Chip: Dielectric Laser Acceleration (DLA) From the Source to Relativistic Electrons," JACoW, IPAC (2017).

K. J. Leedle, R. F. Pease, R. L. Byer,and J. S. Harris, “Laser acceleration and deflection of 96.3 keV electrons with a silicon dielectric structure,” Optica 2, 158–161 (2015). 

K. J. Leedle, A. Ceballos, et al., “Dielectric laser acceleration of sub-100 keV electrons with silicon dual-pillar grating structures,” Optics Letters 40 (18), 4344 (2015).

R. J. England, R. J. Noble, eds., "Dielectric laser accelerators," Reviews of Modern Physics 86, 1337 (2014).

K. Soong, E. Peralta, et al., "Electron beam position monitor for a dielectric microaccelerator," Optics Letters 39 (16), 4747-4750 (2014).

J. Hoffrogge, et al., "Tip-based source of femtosecond electron pulses at 30 keV," J. Appl. Phys. 115 (9), 094506 (2014).

E. A. Peralta, K. Soong, et al., "Demonstration of Electron Acceleration in a Laser-Driven Micro-Structure," Nature 503, 91-94 (2013).

J. Breuer and P. Hommelhoff, "Laser-Based Acceleration of Nonrelativistic Electrons at a Dielectric Structure," Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 134803 (2013).

T. Plettner, R. L. Byer, B. Montazeri, "Electromagnetic forces in the vacuum region of laser-driven layered grating structures," J. Mod. Opt. 58, 1518 (2011).

C. M. S. Sears, et al., "Phase stable net acceleration of electrons from a two-stage optical accelerator," Phys. Rev. ST-AB 11, 101301 (2008).