A Spectral Sky Map of Laser Wakefield Acceleration

We present an add-on to our GPU-based 3D particle-in-cell (PIC) code PIConGPU. This add-on allows to compute the radiation far field of all particles in the simulation using Liénard-Wiechert potentials.
With this code it is possible to compute a complete spectral sky map of all the radiation emitted during laser-driven wakefield acceleration of electrons in a plasma. We have implemented the calculation in such a way that it allows us to compute spectra with logarithmic frequency scales from the infrared to the X-ray region. Furthermore, we discuss the techniques involved to implement the algorithm on GPUs and present scaling results on large GPU clusters.