Considered here is a plasma grating generated by two counterpropagating short laser
pulses. Because of the shortness of the laser pulses, the plasma dynamics are determined …

The development of ultra-intense laser-based sources of high energy ions is an important
goal, with a variety of potential applications. One of the barriers to achieving this goal is the …

Volume plasma density gratings receive increasing interest since, compared to solid-state
optical media, they posses significantly higher damage thresholds. The gratings are …

The plasma density grating induced by intersecting intense laser pulses can be utilized as
optical compressors, polarizers, waveplates, and photonic crystals for the manipulation of …

Laser-produced plasma in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) Hohlraums are marked with
density non-uniformity whose length scale can go down to micrometers. This scale is of the …

High-power lasers are at the forefront of science in many domains. While their fields are still
far from reaching the Schwinger limit, they have been used in extreme regimes, to …

When a short laser pulse propagates in a corrugated plasma, its wakefield interacts with the
density and electric field ripples of the plasma. In the present paper, the modulation of the …

Ultra-intense lasers are a promising source of energetic ions for various applications. An
interesting approach described in Ferri et al.[Commun. Phys. 2, 40 (2019)] argues from …

We report on proton acceleration from intense CO 2 laser-irradiated hydrogen plasmas at
near-critical densities, with the density gradient steepened by Nd: YAG laser ablation-driven …

Incorporating lasers in macroscopic plasma models is made challenging by the fast
temporal and small spatial scales when electrons interact with laser fields. When ion motion …