Controlling the group velocity of an ultrashort laser pulse by means of spatio-temporal
couplings has been proposed to overcome the inherent limitations in laser–plasma …

Radiative shocks are ubiquitous in stellar environments and are characterized by high
temperature plasma emitting a considerable fraction of their energy as radiation. The …

Modelling plasma-based seeded soft X-ray lasers from the creation of the plasma to the
propagation of a femtosecond high-order harmonic (HOH) seed throughout several …

High-density, collisionally pumped plasma-based soft-x-ray lasers have recently delivered
hundreds of femtosecond pulses, breaking the longstanding barrier of one picosecond. To …

We report the first experimental measurement of a strong pulse shortening of a seeded
plasma-based soft x-ray laser at high electron densities. As a consequence of the gain …

Radiative shocks (RS) are complex phenomena which are ubiquitous in astrophysical
environments. The study of such hypersonic shocks in the laboratory, under controlled …

We report new experimental results on radiative shocks obtained in Xenon and Argon in gas
cells at two different pressures below 1bar. These shock waves are generated by the …

Optical field ionized (OFI) plasma amplifiers have recently demonstrated sub-picosecond
pulses when seeded with high order harmonics. In addition to this, the intensity and phase …

We report the laser-plasma accelerator-based X-ray sources development at ELI beamlines.
One of the main objectives of ELI Beamlines is to provide beams of ultrashort particle and …

We report the LWFA driven X-ray sources development at ELI beamlines. ELI Gammatron
beamline provides X-ray pulses of energies from 1-100 keV in betatron scheme, and up to a …