Weikum, M.K. Aßmann, R.W. Dorda, U. Ferran Pousa, A. Heinemann, T. Li, F.Y. Marchetti, B. Sheng, Z.M. Svystun, E.N. Walker, P.A. JACoW Geneva, Switzerland 978-3-95450-182-3 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-TUPIK013 English 1707-1710 TUPIK013 plasma laser electron emittance acceleration Contribution to a conference proceedings 2017 2017-05 http://dx.doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-TUPIK013 http://jacow.org/ipac2017/papers/tupik013.pdf External injection into laser wakefield accelerators is one of the possible routes towards high energy, high quality electron beams through plasma acceleration. Among other reasons this is due to the increased control over the electron beam parameters and overall experimental setup when compared to other plasma schemes, such as controlled self-injection. At the future SINBAD (Short INnovative Bunches and Accelerators at DESY) facility at DESY this technique is planned to be tested experimentally through injection and acceleration of a sub-femtosecond electron beam, produced from a conventional RF-injector, with a charge of around 0.7 pC and initial mean energy of 100 MeV at the plasma entrance. A summary of optimisation steps for the potential experimental setup is presented in this paper, including considerations regarding effects of electron beam self-fields and matching of the beam into the plasma stage. The discussion is complemented by first start-to-end simulations of the plasma accelerator setup based on these findings.