Sébastien Corde
Présentation
After graduating from École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in 2008, Sébastien Corde joined the Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée at École Polytechnique to work as a graduate student on the development of laser-plasma accelerators and their applications to femtosecond light sources. Within a few years he became an expert in his field, publishing an in-depth review article in Reviews of Modern Physics covering the research area of femtosecond x-ray sources from laser-plasma accelerators. Through a series of groundbreaking experiments, he pushed forward the understanding of the interaction underlying laser-plasma accelerators, demonstrated an innovative all-optical Compton gamma-ray source, and showed the potential of these novel light sources for applications, such as phase contrast imaging. Sébastien received his PhD in 2012 and was awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Beam Physics Award from the American Physical Society, the “Prix René Pellat” from the French Physical Society, the John Dawson Thesis prize from the Laser and Plasma Accelerators Workshop, and the “Prix de thèse de l’École Polytechnique” from his graduate school, École Polytechnique. He continued his career as a Research Associate in the plasma wakefield acceleration group at SLAC, led by Mark J. Hogan. The experiments that he conducted at FACET have led to fast experimental progress in the field of plasma wakefield acceleration, e.g. with the demonstration of ultrahigh-field, low-energy spread acceleration of positrons in a plasma, published in Nature. Subtle physical effects, such as dark current induced by multiple ionization, and major milestones, such as the demonstration of the high-efficiency acceleration of an electron beam, were reported in high impact publications. In 2015, Sébastien started an appointment as Assistant Professor at École Polytechnique, continuing his research at the interface between beam-driven and laser-driven plasma accelerators, in particular in the context of his ERC Starting Grant project “Miniature beam-driven Plasma ACcelerators” (M-PAC). Contributing with key physics insight, such as the understanding of the role of self-focusing and head erosion for plasma acceleration in beam-ionized noble gases or the characterization of the field structure in the blowout cavity, he also lead many major experimental achievements in the field of positron acceleration in plasmas. Taking advantage of the synergies between beam-driven and laser-driven plasma accelerators, he showed their potential for an original hybrid source of bright gamma rays. Becoming full professor in 2019, Sébastien’s research activities are covering a broad range of physics phenomena in the context of the interaction between lasers, particle beams and plasmas, and their applications to particle accelerators, light sources and laboratory astrophysics. This includes the development a proof-of-concept plasma-accelerator-based free-electron laser, considered as the so-called 5th generation light source, the experimental and numerical study of astrophysically-relevant electromagnetic filamentation instabilities and of positron acceleration in plasma, beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiments using the FACET-II facility at SLAC, as well as an experimental research program on hybrid staging of laser-driven and beam-driven plasma accelerators.
Publications
Publications
Status and first results from FACET-II towards the demonstration of plasma wakefield acceleration, coherent radiation generation, and probing strong-field QED14th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf. (IPAC'23), May 2023, Venice, Italy. ⟨10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2023-TUPA104⟩ |
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Channeling Acceleration in Crystals and Nanostructures and Studies of Solid Plasmas: New OpportunitiesSnowmass 2021, Jul 2022, Seattle, United States |
Positron Acceleration in Linear, Moderately Non-Linear and Non-Linear Plasma Wakefields4th North American Particle Accelerator Conference, Aug 2022, Albuquerque, United States. pp.WEYD3, ⟨10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2022-WEYD3⟩ |
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Facet-ii31st Linear Accelerator Conference, Aug 2022, Liverpool, United Kingdom. pp.631-635, ⟨10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-WE1AA03⟩ |
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Summary of European Advanced Accelerator Workshop (EAAC) Working Group 1: Electron Beams from Plasma4th European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, Sep 2019, La Biodola, Italy. pp.012001, ⟨10.1088/1742-6596/1596/1/012001⟩ |
Characterization of Undulator Radiation from a Compact Laser Plasma Acceleration SourceADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR X-RAY OPTICS V, 2020, online, United States. ⟨10.1117/12.2569386⟩ |
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Progress towards laser plasma based free electron laser on COXINEL4th European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, Sep 2019, La Biodola, Italy. pp.012040, ⟨10.1088/1742-6596/1596/1/012040⟩ |
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Energy spread tuning of a laser-plasma accelerated electron beam in a magnetic chicaneLaser-Plasma Accelerator Workshop 2019, May 2019, Split, Croatia. pp.074003, ⟨10.1088/1361-6587/ab8ca0⟩ |
High Gradient Wakefield AcceleratorCERN Accelerator School, Mar 2019, Sesimbra, Portugal |
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Progress Towards Laser Plasma Electron Based Free Electron Laser on COXINEL39th International Free Electron Laser Conference, Aug 2019, Hamburg, Germany. pp.THP048, ⟨10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-THP048⟩ |
E-305: Beam filamentation and bright gamma-ray burstsFACET-II Science Workshop 2019, Oct 2019, Menlo Park, United States |
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Experimental progress in LWFA to PWFA stagingFACET-II Science Workshop 2019, Oct 2019, Menlo Park, France |
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Producing multi-coloured bunches through beam-induced ionization injection in plasma wakefield acceleratorDirections in particle beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration, Jun 2018, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. pp.20180184, ⟨10.1098/rsta.2018.0184⟩ |
Control of Laser Plasma Accelerated Electrons: A Route for Compact Free Electron Lasers10th International Particle Accelerator Conference, May 2019, Melbourne, Australia. pp.WEZPLS1, ⟨10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-WEZPLS1⟩ |
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Gamma-ray radiation in beam-plasma interaction as a diagnostics for emittance growth in PWFA and for beam filamentation instabilities4th European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, Sep 2019, Isola d’Elba, Italy |
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Status of Positron Acceleration in PWFACLIC Workshop 2019, CERN, Jan 2019, Lausane, Switzerland |
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Fundamentals and Applications of Hybrid LWFA-PWFALaser-Driven Sources of High Energy Particles and Radiation, Jul 2017, Capri, Italy. pp.95-120, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-25850-4_5⟩ |
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Towards a Free Electron Laser Using Laser Plasma Acceleration On COXINEL13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYNCHROTRON RADIATION INSTRUMENTATION (SRI2018), 2019, Taipei, Taiwan. ⟨10.1063/1.5084597⟩ |
Progress towards seeded LWFA-based FEL and lessons learnedFACET-II Science Workshop 2019, Oct 2019, Menlo Park, United States |
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Positron bunch acceleration in PlasmaALEGRO Workshop 2019, Mar 2019, Lausanne, Switzerland |
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Study of the Electron Transport in the COXINEL FEL Beamline Using a Laser-Plasma Accelerated Electron Beam38th International Free-Electron Laser Conference, Aug 2017, Santa Fe, United States. pp.TUP061, ⟨10.18429/JACoW-FEL2017-TUP061⟩ |
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Transportation and Manipulation of a Laser Plasma Acceleration Beam60th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on Future Light Sources, Mar 2018, Shanghai, China. pp.TUA2WC01, ⟨10.18429/JACoW-FLS2018-TUA2WC01⟩ |
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Towards a Free Electron Laser Using Laser Plasma Acceleration9th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Apr 2018, Vancouver, Canada. pp.THPML033, ⟨10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2018-THPML033⟩ |
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Electron Transport on COXINEL Beam Line8th International Particle Accelerator Conference, May 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark. pp.TUPIK003, ⟨10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-TUPIK003⟩ |
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X-ray emission from laser-accelerated electrons and its use as diagnostic of laser-plasma interactionConference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Jun 2014, San Jose, CA, United States. ⟨10.1364/CLEO_AT.2014.JTh3L.1⟩ |
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Observations of longitudinal and transverse self-injections in laser-plasma wakefield acceleratorsConference on Laser Acceleration of Electrons, Protons, and Ions II; and Medical Applications of Laser-Generated Beams of Particles II; and Harnessing Relativistic Plasma Waves III, Apr 2013, Prague, Czech Republic. ⟨10.1117/12.2017422⟩ |
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Laser wakefield acceleration: application to Betatron X- ray radiation production and X-ray imagingConference on Photonics North, Jun 2012, Montreal, Canada. ⟨10.1117/12.2001554⟩ |
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Control and Mapping of X-Ray Emission in a Laser-Plasma Accelerator2012 CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS (CLEO), May 2012, San Jose, CA, United States. ⟨10.1364/QELS.2012.QW3F.5⟩ |
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All-optical Betatron and Compton x-ray sources and application to phase contrast imagingConference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), May 2012, San Jose, CA, United States. ⟨10.1364/QELS.2012.QW3F.4⟩ |
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Developments of capillary discharge for laser plasma accelerators8th Int. Conference on Dense Z-pinches, DZP, Jun 2011, Biarritz, France |
Commissioning and first measurements of the initial X-ray and γ-ray detectors at FACET-II2023 |
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Seeded free-electron laser driven by a compact laser plasma accelerator2022 |
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Investigating strong-field QED processes in laser-electron beam collisions at Apollon2021 |
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European Strategy for Particle Physics -- Accelerator R&D Roadmap[Research Report] CERN-2022-001, CERN. 2022 |
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Beam focusing by near-field transition radiation[Research Report] IP Paris; CEA; MPIK. 2020 |
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Des accélérateurs laser-plasma aux sources de rayonnement X femtoseconde : étude, développement et applicationsPhysique des plasmas [physics.plasm-ph]. Ecole Polytechnique X, 2012. Français. ⟨NNT : ⟩ |