Laser-accelerated, low-divergence 15-MeV quasimonoenergetic electron bunches at 1 kHz

F Salehi, M Le, L Railing, M Kolesik, HM Milchberg - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
We demonstrate laser wakefield acceleration of quasimonoenergetic electron bunches up to
15 MeV at 1-kHz repetition rate with 2.5-pC charge per bunch and a core with< 7-mrad …

Electro-Nuclear Dynamics of Single and Double Ionization of H2 in Ultrafast Intense Laser Pulses

JN Vigneau, TT Nguyen Dang… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We present an efficient method for modeling the single and double ionization dynamics of
the H2 molecule in ultrashort, intense laser fields. This method is based on a semianalytical …

Femtosecond laser-plasma dynamics study by a time-resolved Mach–Zehnder-like interferometer

AVF Zuffi, J Ricardo dos Santos, EP Maldonado… - Applied Optics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Side-view density profiles of a laser-induced plasma were measured by a home-built, time-
resolved, Mach–Zehnder-like interferometer. Due to the pump-probe femtosecond resolution …

Laser wakefield electron accelerator: possible use for radioisotope production

ND Vieira, EP Maldonado, A Bonatto… - … Optics and Photonics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electron beams generated by laser wakefield acceleration can induce a photoneutron
reaction to convert 100 Mo into 99 Mo. Multi-pC, several-MeV electron beams, obtained from …

Ultrafast laser micromachining of submillimetric de Laval nozzles in alumina for laser electron acceleration

AVF Zuffi, FBD Tabacow, ND Vieira… - … Optics and Photonics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have explored the fabrication of submillimetric de Laval nozzles by ultrashort laser
pulses micromachining in alumina, a dielectric ceramic, to generate supersonic gas jets in …

High intensity ultrashort laser pulses and their applications at IPEN

RE Samad, EP Maldonado, W de Rossi… - … Optics and Photonics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrashort laser pulses interact with matter in unique, nonselective ways, due to electronic
direct excitation in an ultrafast time scale. Additionally, these pulses can cover peak powers …