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Dielectric laser acceleration by TPP fabricated microstructures for

ultrarelativistic electrons
Petru-Vlad Toma 1,2), Bogdan Călin 1), Marian Zamfirescu 1)
1) CETAL, INFLPR, 409 Atomistilor street, Măgurele, RO-077125, ROMANIA
2) Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, 405 Atomistilor street,

Măgurele, RO-077125, ROMANIA

Keywords: DLA, TPP, accelerator, ultrarelativistic, electrons, FDTD, numeric, integration .


Summary:
In the ultrarelativistic limit it is possible to greatly simplify the manifestly covariant equations of motion for an electron.
As such, we can bypass the need for constantly synchronizing the phase with the electron as it propagates through the
periodic enhanced laser near-field1. Therefore, using FDTD numeric simulations, realized in MEEP 2, we propagate the
field through the microstructure configuration. After optimizing the near-field by sweeping the parameter space we can
compare our semi-analytic result with a fully numeric integration realized using the package DifferentialEquations.jl3 from
the Julia programming language. Finally, once we have an adequate design, we can fabricate the 3D microstructures using
laser direct writing via TPP (two photon polymerization)4.
Motivation
Developing arbitrary energy microaccelerators to integrate in circuits and medical devices is bound to greatly reduce the
size, weight and associated cost for industries that frequently require electrons of particular energies, energies which can
be finetuned using our design approach. The ultrarelativistic domain is a good starting point for developing the theoretical
toolkit for DLA design since it is possible to simplify the dynamics of the particle.
Results
Thus far we’ve managed to complete a parameter sweep for the periodic microstructure with 10 protuberances and found
a few working configurations, one of them is pictured below in blue, Fig. 1 (left), overlayed with the average field energy
density in greyscale. Starting from these designs we have iterated over erosion and laser power in our Nanoscribe direct
laser writing system to ascertain the fabrication limits, Fig. 1 (right).

Fig. 1) (left) The time-averaged energy density of the electromagnetic field of a linearly polarized planewave (greyscale) passing through
one such microstructure (overlayed with blue). (right) SEM images of a set of DLA microstructures realized for powers starting at: P1
= 6 mW, P6 = 4 mW with a step of DP = 0,4 mW.

Fig. 2) Using the SEM imaging data we were able to extract information about the physical dimensions of the realized structure.
Differences for the geometric parameters obtained via laser writing diverge from the target by 5% to 20%.
We have validated our printed geometry, as pictured in Fig. 2. Through this process we have optimized the laser writing
parameters which allow us the best definition and the finest working scale.

Using gained knowledge, new theoretical insights and further optimized simulation we expect the next generation of
microstructures will be simulated faster, be closer to target and yield better energy gain per period.

Acknowledgement
This work was supported by Nucleu Project PN 19 15 01 01.
References
For a proceedings paper:
[1] F. Jipa et al, “Laser parallel nanofabrication by single femtosecond pulse near-field ablation using photoresist masks”,
Opt. Express, 22, 3356-3361 (2014).
[2] A. F. Oskooi et al, “Meep: A flexible free-software package for electromagnetic simulations by the FDTD method”,
Computer Physics Communications, 181, 687-702, (2010)
[3] C. Rackauckas and Q. Nie, “DifferentialEquations.jl – A Performant and Feature-Rich Ecosystem for Solving
Differential Equations in Julia”. Journal of Open Research Software, Journal of Open Research Software, 5, 15, (2017)
[4] ed. Sumio Hosaka, Updates in Advanced Lithography, 3 (IntechOpen, 2013)

Corresponding author: [email protected]

Section number and name: 5. Modeling, design, and simulation

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