Laser-plasma utilities

FBPIC was designed specifically for simulations of laser-wakefield acceleration and plasma-wakefield acceleration. Therefore it provides helper functions and classes that allow to easily:

• Inject a laser pulse in the simulation.

• Initialize a relativistic electron beam with its space charge field.

• Add external fields (e.g. focusing fields), which are applied to the particles at each timestep but are not self-consistently evolved by the simulation.

See the sections below for the corresponding documentation:

• Laser initialization
• Beam initialization
• External fields