Carl Schroeder

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

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.

• Plasma physics
• Laser-plasma and beam-plasma interactions
• High-energy density physics
• Advanced accelerator concepts
• Compact radiation sources
• Accelerator Science & Technology

Selected Publications:

• 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).
• 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, 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).