A history of high-power laser research and development in the United Kingdom

CN Danson, M White, JRM Barr, T Bett… - High Power Laser …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The first demonstration of laser action in ruby was made in 1960 by TH Maiman of Hughes
Research Laboratories, USA. Many laboratories worldwide began the search for lasers …

Extreme case of Faraday effect: magnetic splitting of ultrashort laser pulses in plasmas

S Weng, Q Zhao, Z Sheng, W Yu, S Luan, M Chen… - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
The Faraday effect, caused by a magnetic-field-induced change in the optical properties,
takes place in a vast variety of systems from a single atomic layer of graphenes to huge …

Amorphous polymer with C [double bond, length as m-dash] O to improve the performance of perovskite solar cells

Y Zhang, X Zhuang, K Zhou, C Cai, Z Hu… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Morphology and crystallinity of perovskite layers are crucial for power conversion efficiency
(PCE) of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Here, we introduced amorphous polymer …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient generation of relativistic near-single-cycle mid-infrared pulses in plasmas

XL Zhu, SM Weng, M Chen, ZM Sheng… - Light: Science & …, 2020 - nature.com
Ultrashort intense optical pulses in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) region are very important for
broad applications ranging from super-resolution spectroscopy to attosecond X-ray pulse …

[PDF][PDF] Taking the vehicle out of drug delivery

J Shen, J Wolfram, M Ferrari, H Shen - Materials today, 2017 - Elsevier
The biodistribution of drugs has a major impact on therapeutic efficacy and side effects.
Previously, nanocarriers have been utilized to improve localized drug delivery, and there are …

Effective suppression of parametric instabilities with decoupled broadband lasers in plasma

Y Zhao, S Weng, M Chen, J Zheng, H Zhuo, C Ren… - Physics of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
A theoretical analysis for the stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) instability driven by two
laser beams with a certain frequency difference is presented. It is found that strong coupling …

[HTML][HTML] Generation of single-cycle relativistic infrared pulses at wavelengths above 20 µm from density-tailored plasmas

XL Zhu, WY Liu, SM Weng, M Chen… - Matter and Radiation …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Ultra-intense short-pulse light sources are powerful tools for a wide range of applications.
However, relativistic short-pulse lasers are normally generated in the near-infrared regime …

Plasma-based polarizer and waveplate at large laser intensity

G Lehmann, KH Spatschek - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
A plasma photonic crystal consists of a plasma density grating which is created in
underdense plasma by counterpropagating laser beams. When a high-power laser pulse …

[HTML][HTML] Localized Modes and Photonic Band Gap Sensitivities with 1D Fibonacci Quasi-Crystals Filled with Sinusoidal Modulated Plasma

N Ben Ali, Y Trabelsi, H Alsaif, O Kahouli, Z Elleuch - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Using the transfer matrix method, the electromagnetic responses of 1D deformed and non-
deformed quasi-periodic photonic crystals arranged in accordance with the Fibonacci …

[HTML][HTML] Stimulated Raman scattering excited by incoherent light in plasma

Y Zhao, S Weng, M Chen, J Zheng, H Zhuo… - Matter and Radiation at …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) excited by incoherent light is studied via particle-in-cell
simulations. It is shown that a large bandwidth of incoherent light can reduce the growth of …