High-Power -Ray Flash Generation in Ultraintense Laser-Plasma Interactions

T Nakamura, JK Koga, TZ Esirkepov, M Kando, G Korn… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
When high-intensity laser interaction with matter enters the regime of dominated radiation
reaction, the radiation losses open the way for producing short pulse high-power γ-ray …

Laser-accelerated particle beams for stress testing of materials

M Barberio, M Scisciò, S Vallières, F Cardelli… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Laser-driven particle acceleration, obtained by irradiation of a solid target using an ultra-
intense (I> 1018 W/cm2) short-pulse (duration< 1 ps) laser, is a growing field of interest, in …

High resolution bremsstrahlung and fast electron characterization in ultrafast intense laser–solid interactions

C Zulick, B Hou, F Dollar, A Maksimchuk… - New Journal of …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The scaling of the intensity, angular and material dependence of bremsstrahlung radiation
from an intense (I> 10 18 W cm− 2) laser–solid interaction has been characterized at …

Multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock calculations in open-shell atoms: Convergence methods and satellite spectra of the copper photoemission spectrum

CT Chantler, JA Lowe, IP Grant - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and …, 2010 - APS
The copper K α photoemission spectra is one of the most widely studied. Recent Dirac-Fock
calculations have produced transition energies in good agreement with experiment, though …

[HTML][HTML] High-energy differential-filtering photon spectrometer for ultraintense laser-matter interactions

GJ Williams, R Tommasini, N Lemos, J Park… - Review of Scientific …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Large quantities of ultrahigh-energy x-rays are produced by petawatt-class lasers; however,
spectroscopy in this range of 0.1-1 MeV is difficult due to the long photon mean free path. A …

Laser-produced X-ray sources

LT Hudson, JF Seely - Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 2010 - Elsevier
A formidable array of advanced laser systems are emerging that produce extreme states of
light and matter. By irradiating solid and gaseous targets with lasers of increasing energy …

A pinhole camera for ultrahigh-intensity laser plasma experiments

C Wang, HH An, J Xiong, ZH Fang, YW Wang… - Review of Scientific …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
A pinhole camera is an important instrument for the detection of radiation in laser plasmas. It
can monitor the laser focus directly and assist in the analysis of the experimental data …

Hard x-ray transmission crystal spectrometer at the OMEGA-EP laser facility

JF Seely, CI Szabo, U Feldman, LT Hudson… - Review of Scientific …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The transmission crystal spectrometer (TCS) is approved for taking data at the OMEGA-EP
laser facility since 2009 and will be available for the OMEGA target chamber in 2010. TCS …

Development of the PETAL laser facility and its diagnostic tools

D Batani, S Hulin, JE Ducret, E d'Humieres - 2013 - dspace.cvut.cz
The PETAL system (PETawatt Aquitaine Laser) is a high-energy short-pulse laser, currently
in an advanced construction phase, to be combined with the French Mega-Joule Laser …

Lateral propagation of MeV electrons generated by femtosecond laser irradiation

JF Seely, CI Szabo, P Audebert, E Brambrink… - Physics of …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The propagation of MeV electrons generated by intense (≈ 10 20 W/cm 2) femtosecond
laser irradiation, in the lateral direction perpendicular to the incident laser beam, was …