Contemporary particle-in-cell approach to laser-plasma modelling

TD Arber, K Bennett, CS Brady… - Plasma Physics and …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Particle-in-cell (PIC) methods have a long history in the study of laser-plasma
interactions. Early electromagnetic codes used the Yee staggered grid for field variables …

[HTML][HTML] Saddle point approaches in strong field physics and generation of attosecond pulses

A Nayak, M Dumergue, S Kühn, S Mondal… - Physics reports, 2019 - Elsevier
Attoscience is the emerging field that accesses the fastest electronic processes occurring at
the atomic and molecular length scales with attosecond (1 as= 1 0− 18 s) time resolution …

High-repetition-rate attosecond extreme ultraviolet beamlines at eli alps for studying ultrafast phenomena

M Shirozhan, S Mondal, T Grósz, B Nagyillés… - Ultrafast …, 2024 - spj.science.org
Advancements in light engineering have led to the creation of pulsed laser sources capable
of delivering high-repetition-rate, high-power few-cycle laser pulses across a wide spectral …

The ELI-ALPS facility: the next generation of attosecond sources

S Kühn, M Dumergue, S Kahaly… - Journal of Physics B …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This review presents the technological infrastructure that will be available at the Extreme
Light Infrastructure Attosecond Light Pulse Source (ELI-ALPS) international facility. ELI …

Generation of intense high-order vortex harmonics

X Zhang, B Shen, Y Shi, X Wang, L Zhang, W Wang… - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
This Letter presents for the first time a scheme to generate intense high-order optical vortices
that carry orbital angular momentum in the extreme ultraviolet region based on relativistic …

The X-ray emission effectiveness of plasma mirrors: reexamining power-law scaling for relativistic high-order harmonic generation

MR Edwards, JM Mikhailova - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Ultrashort pulsed lasers provide uniquely detailed access to the ultrafast dynamics of
physical, chemical, and biological systems, but only a handful of wavelengths are directly …

Experimental demonstration of efficient harmonic generation via surface plasma compression with lasers

BY Li, F Liu, M Chen, FY Wu, JW Wang, L Lu, JL Li… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The efficiency of high-order harmonic generation from a relativistic laser interacting with
solid targets depends greatly on surface plasma distribution. The usual method of …

Towards intense isolated attosecond pulses from relativistic surface high harmonics

O Jahn, VE Leshchenko, P Tzallas, A Kessel, M Krüger… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Relativistic surface high harmonics have been considered a unique source for the
generation of intense isolated attosecond pulses in the extreme ultra-violet and x-ray …

Probing strong-field qed with doppler-boosted petawatt-class lasers

L Fedeli, A Sainte-Marie, N Zaïm, M Thévenet, JL Vay… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
We propose a scheme to explore regimes of strong-field quantum electrodynamics (SF
QED) otherwise unattainable with the currently available laser technology. The scheme …

Reflecting petawatt lasers off relativistic plasma mirrors: a realistic path to the Schwinger limit

F Quéré, H Vincenti - High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2021 - cambridge.org
The quantum vacuum plays a central role in physics. Quantum electrodynamics (QED)
predicts that the properties of the fermionic quantum vacuum can be probed by extremely …