Advances in laser-driven neutron sources and applications

A Yogo, Y Arikawa, Y Abe, SR Mirfayzi… - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
Laser-driven neutron source (LDNS) is attracting interest for several reasons including (i)
compactness of the source,(ii) neutron pulse shortness and (iii) transportability of laser …

Fast neutron generation with few-cycle, relativistic laser pulses at 1 Hz repetition rate

K Osvay, PK Singh, P Varmazyar, M Füle, T Gilinger… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Laser-driven deuterons generate neutrons with a mean energy of 2.5 MeV, through the 2H
(d, n) fusion reaction in a deuterated polyethylene (dPE) tablet. The deuterium ions are …

Transfer learning and multi-fidelity modeling of laser-driven particle acceleration

BZ Djordjević, J Kim, SC Wilks, J Ludwig, C Myers… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Computer models of intense, laser-driven ion acceleration require expensive particle-in-cell
simulations that may struggle to capture all the multi-scale, multi-dimensional physics …

Angular-spectral filtering of recoil protons for optimization of fast neutron imaging employing proton converters

C Graham, MP Selwood, CD Murphy, J Mir… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Fast neutron imaging is an important capability for diverse applications such as inertial
confinement fusion diagnostics, cargo security, nuclear nonproliferation and arms control …

Platform development toward ultra-intense laser-based simultaneous hard x-ray and MeV neutron multimodal radiography

F Treffert, M Aufderheide, J Bendahan… - Review of Scientific …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Ultra-intense short-pulse lasers interacting with matter are capable of generating
exceptionally bright secondary radiation sources. The short pulse duration (picoseconds to …

[PDF][PDF] Reliable Determination of Pulses and Pulse-Shape Instability in Ultrashort Laser Pulse Trains Using Polarization-Gating and Transient-Grating Frequency …

R Jafari, ES Grace, R Trebino - 2025 - preprints.org
Ultrashort-laser-pulse-shape instability meters do not exist, so this task necessarily falls to
pulse-measurement devices, like Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating (FROG) and its …