Mikhail Serebriakov

Doctoral Student: Jérôme Faure, Igor Andriyash (LOA) & Kristjan Põder (DESY)

The performance of laser-plasma accelerators is limited by dephasing between electrons and the driving laser. This project explores how superluminal Bessel laser pulses can overcome these limitations by enabling optical control over plasma wave velocity. After demonstrating such pulses experimentally and showing that they dramatically boost electron energy numerically, this project will theoretically and numerically investigate this novel scheme. It will address key open questions regarding electron injection, long-distance laser stability, and energy efficiency.

Publications

• M. A. Serebryakov, E. N. Nerush, L. Ji, X. Geng, and I. Yu. Kostyukov «QED cascade initiation via reflection of a multipetawatt laser pulse from a self-organized parabolic plasma mirror», Physics of Plasmas, 33(3), 033301 (2026);
• M. A. Serebryakov, A. S. Samsonov, E. N. Nerush, I. Yu. Kostyukov, «Abnormal absorption of extremely intense laser pulses in relativistically underdense plasmas», Physics of Plasmas, 30(11), 113303 (2023) – Physics of Plasmas early career collection, 2023;
• M. A. Serebryakov, E. N. Nerush, I. Yu. Kostyukov, «Quantum electrodynamics cascade arising at reflection of a multipetawatt laser pulse from a solid plasma target», Conference paper: 2024 International Conference Laser Optics (ICLO);
• S. A. Koryagin, M. A. Serebryakov, «The influence of quantum dynamical localisation in low-energy electron-nuclear collision on transparency in the continuum of the photospheric plasma of a single magnetic white dwarf», Conference paper: Modern astronomy: from the Early Universe to exoplanets and black holes (VAK24).

Contact

E-mail: mikhail.serebriakov@ensta.fr.
ORCID: 0000-0002-2694-3010.
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mikhail-Serebryakov