About
I am interested in developing new methods for controlled electron acceleration in laser driven plasma wakes as a Research Assistant in Simon Hooker's group.
Specifically, I research mechanisms to enable controlled injection of electrons into plasma wakefields through optical schemes such as two pulse ionisation injection (2PII), driving wakefields with multiple lower intensity laser pulses, and creation of plasma waveguides to enable acceleration over long distances at high repetition rate.
This research is performed in our own lab in Oxford, where we have a 20 TW Ti:Sapphire laser, and at other institutions such as the Central Laser Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
Research interests
Laser wakefield acceleration
Selected publications
Excitation and control of plasma wakefields by multiple laser pulses
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society 119:4 (2017) 044802
Two-pulse ionization injection into quasilinear laser wakefields.
Physical review letters 111:15 (2013) 155004