Ultra-intense femtosecond laser interactions<? TeX\break?> with aligned nanostructures

JJ Rocca, MG Capeluto, RC Hollinger, S Wang… - Optica, 2024 - opg.optica.org
The interaction of ultrafast laser pulses of relativistic intensity with high aspect ratio
nanostructures can efficiently and volumetrically heat matter to an ultra-high-energy-density …

Generation, measurement, and modeling of strong magnetic fields generated by laser-driven micro coils

H Morita, S Fujioka - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2023 - Springer
Strong magnetic fields play an important role in high-energy-density plasma. Several
approaches have been investigated within a decade to access the strong magnetic field …

Branching of high-current relativistic electron beam in porous materials

K Jiang, TW Huang, R Li, MY Yu, HB Zhuo, SZ Wu… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Propagation of high-current relativistic electron beam (REB) in plasma is relevant to many
high-energy astrophysical phenomena as well as applications based on high-intensity …

Enhanced electron acceleration in aligned nanowire arrays irradiated at highly relativistic intensities

A Moreau, R Hollinger, C Calvi, S Wang… - Plasma Physics and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a significant enhancement in both the energy and the flux of relativistic electrons
accelerated by ultra-intense laser pulse irradiation (> 1× 10 21 W cm− 2) of near solid …

Coherent control of relativistic electron dynamics in plasma nanophotonics

A Dulat, S Rakeeb, S Dam, AD Lad… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Intense femtosecond laser pulses interacting with solids can drive electrons to relativistic
energies, enabling miniaturized particle accelerators and bright extreme‐UV light sources …

Intense proton acceleration in ultrarelativistic interaction with nanochannels

LA Gizzi, G Cristoforetti, F Baffigi, F Brandi… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
We show that both the flux and the cutoff energy of protons accelerated by ultraintense
lasers can be simultaneously increased when using targets consisting of thin layers of …

Luminous, relativistic, directional electron bunches from an intense laser driven grating plasma

AD Lad, Y Mishima, PK Singh, B Li, A Adak… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Bright, energetic, and directional electron bunches are generated through efficient energy
transfer of relativistic intense (~ 1019 W/cm2), 30 femtosecond, 800 nm high contrast laser …

Laser-driven proton acceleration via excitation of surface plasmon polaritons into TiO2 nanotube array targets

G Cristoforetti, F Baffigi, F Brandi… - Plasma Physics and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we report the measurement of laser-driven proton acceleration obtained by
irradiating nanotube array targets with ultrashort laser pulses at an intensity in excess of 10 …

A laser parameter study on enhancing proton generation from microtube foil targets

J Strehlow, J Kim, M Bailly-Grandvaux, S Bolaños… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The interaction of an intense laser with a solid foil target can drive∼ TV/m electric fields,
accelerating ions to MeV energies. In this study, we experimentally observe that structured …

Transition from Coherent to Stochastic electron heating in ultrashort relativistic laser interaction with structured targets

G Cristoforetti, P Londrillo, PK Singh, F Baffigi… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Relativistic laser interaction with micro-and nano-scale surface structures enhances energy
transfer to solid targets and yields matter in extreme conditions. We report on the …