Carl Schroeder

Adjunct Professor, Nuclear Engineering
Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Ph.D. Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1999
M.A. Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1995
B.S. Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, 1994
B.S. Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, 1994

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Biography

Carl Schroeder is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering, Faculty in the Applied Science and Technology Program at the University of California, Berkeley, and Senior Scientist in the Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is also Deputy Director of the BELLA (Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator) Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

He received undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Physics with High Honors in 1994 from the University of Maryland, College Park. He received a DOE Fusion Science Fellowship and did his graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, where he completed his doctorate in Physics in 1999. His postdoctoral research focused on the development of x-ray free-electron lasers at the SLAC National Accelerator Lab. Dr. Schroeder joined Berkeley Lab in 2001.

Dr. Schroeder’s research interests include intense laser-plasma and beam-plasma interactions, plasma-based accelerators, advanced acceleration concepts, novel radiation sources, free-electron lasers, and related topics. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society “For significant theoretical contributions to the physics of intense laser-plasma interactions, with applications to plasma-based accelerators and light sources.”

Research Interests

Honors, Awards, & Professional Activities

Honors and Awards

Fellow, American Physical Society (Division of Plasma Physics), 2012, “For significant theoretical contributions to the physics of intense laser-plasma interactions, with applications to plasma-based accelerators and light sources.”
John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research, American Physical Society, 2010, “For experiments and theory leading to the demonstration of high-quality electron beams from laser-plasma accelerators.”
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Outstanding Performance Award, 2007
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Outstanding Performance Award, 2005

Selected Publications

C.B. Schroeder et al., “Beam dynamics challenges in linear colliders based on laser-plasma accelerators,” J. Instrum. 17, P05011 (2022).
A.J. Gonsalves et al., “Petawatt laser guiding and electron beam acceleration to 8 GeV in a laser-heated capillary discharge waveguide,” Physical Review Letters 122, 084801 (2019).
S. Steinke et al., “Staging of Laser Plasma Accelerators,” Nature 530, 190 (2016).
C.B. Schroeder et al., “Thermal emittance from ionization-induced trapping in plasma accelerators,” Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 17, 101301 (2014).
C.B. Schroeder et al., “Growth and phase velocity of self-modulated beam-driven plasma waves,” Physical Review Letters 107, 145002 (2011).
C.B. Schroeder et al., “Nonlinear pulse propagation and phase velocity of laser-driven plasma waves,” Physical Review Letters 106, 135002 (2011).
A.J. Gonsalves et al., “Tunable Laser Plasma Accelerator based on Longitudinal Density Tailoring,” Nature Physics 7, 862 (2011).
C.B. Schroeder and E. Esarey “Relativistic warm plasma theory of nonlinear laser-driven electron plasma waves,” Physical Review E 81, 056403 (2010).
E. Esarey, C.B. Schroeder, W.P. Leemans, “Physics of laser-driven plasma-based electron accelerators,” Reviews of Modern Physics 81, 1229 (2009).
C.B. Schroeder et al., “High-harmonic generation in cavitated plasmas,” Phys. Plasmas 15, 056704 (2008).
C.B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, B.A. Shadwick, “Warm wavebreaking of nonlinear plasma waves with arbitrary phase velocities,” Physical Review E 72, R055401 (2005).
C.G.R. Geddes et al., “High quality electron beams from a plasma channel guided laser wakefield accelerator,” Nature 431, 538 (2004).
C.B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, W.P. Leemans, “Electron-Beam Conditioning by Thomson Scattering,” Physical Review Letters 93, 194801 (2004).
C.B. Schroeder et al., “Raman forward scattering of chirped laser pulses,” Phys. Plasmas 10, 285 (2003).
C.B. Schroeder, D.H. Whittum, J.S. Wurtele, “Multimode Analysis of the Hollow Plasma Channel Wakefield Accelerator,” Physical Review Letters 82, 1177 (1999).