The field of Laser Plasma Accelerator and Novel light sources based on it have experienced revolutionary growth in the past decade. In this talk, I will introduce you some recent research works in our group at University of Strathclyde. Highlights include high quality electron beam generation and the measurements of their properties, light sources based on laser plasma accelerator and magnetic undulator, bright Gamma rays generation through betatron and laser resonance.   

Professor Dino Jaroszynski’s main research activities have been in the area of collective radiation-matter interactions in atomic systems, free-electron laser (FEL)-like devices and more recently in plasmas. The most outstanding of his scientific achievements was the first demonstration and study of superradiance in a FEL. His other achievements include harmonic generation, self-amplification of spontaneous emission (SASE), two-color operation and coherent spontaneous emission in the free-electron laser. Since arriving at Strathclyde he has continued this research activity in collective radiation interactions and broadened it to the study of low energy FELs operating at microwave frequencies. More recently he has formed a new group to extend these studies to include non-linear optical phenomena, parametric processes and collective radiation emission from plasmas, semiconductors and dielectric particles. This new exciting activity should contribute to the development of the next generation of high power lasers and advanced high brightness laser-plasma accelerators that could form the basis of compact tunable coherent X-ray sources. The combination of these different areas of physics has the potential of resulting in significant scientific advances that could underpin numerous areas of UK science over the next decades.