Combined tools for Particle-In-Cell simulations performed with transversely asymmetric chirped lasers

We introduce the Asymmetric Chirped Electric field reconstruction (ACE) toolbox, a suite of algorithms enabling the reconstruction of a laser transverse distribution coupled to a chirped temporal profile. This suite includes the implementation of the reconstructed distribution in Particle In-Cell simulations in cylindrical and Cartesian geometry. Under the assumption of negligible spatio-temporal couplings, the ACE toolbox extends a previously established method for realistic simulations of the transverse distribution by adding spectral chirping to the modal decomposition of the electric field. The relevance of the ACE toolbox is demonstrated through the modelling of a Laser Wakefield Acceleration experiment where the produced electron bunch was optimized via spectral chirping of the laser pulse.