Extreme case of Faraday effect: magnetic splitting of ultrashort laser pulses in plasmas

S Weng, Q Zhao, Z Sheng, W Yu, S Luan, M Chen… - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
The Faraday effect, caused by a magnetic-field-induced change in the optical properties,
takes place in a vast variety of systems from a single atomic layer of graphenes to huge …

[HTML][HTML] Optimization of hole-boring radiation pressure acceleration of ion beams for fusion ignition

SM Weng, ZM Sheng, M Murakami, M Chen… - Matter and Radiation …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
In contrast to ion beams produced by conventional accelerators, ion beams accelerated by
ultrashort intense laser pulses have advantages of ultrashort bunch duration and ultrahigh …

Revisit on ion acceleration mechanisms in solid targets driven by intense laser pulses

B Qiao, XF Shen, H He, Y Xie, H Zhang… - Plasma Physics and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The most investigated ion acceleration mechanisms in solid targets driven by intense laser
pulses are revisited, including the target normal sheath acceleration (TNSA), radiation …

Particle-in-cell simulation of transport and energy deposition of intense proton beams in solid-state materials

D Wu, W Yu, YT Zhao, DHH Hoffmann, S Fritzsche… - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
A particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation code is used to investigate the transport and energy
deposition of an intense proton beam in solid-state material. This code is able to simulate …

Laser-driven acceleration of ion beams for high-gain inertial confinement fusion

J Badziak, J Domański - Nuclear Fusion, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is currently one of the two main paths towards an energy
source based on thermonuclear fusion. A promising ICF option is ion fast ignition (IFI), in …

超短超强激光驱动新型粒子加速器: 机遇和挑战

盛政明, 陈民, 翁苏明, 远晓辉, 陈黎明, 张杰 - 物理, 2018 - wuli.iphy.ac.cn
2018 年诺贝尔物理学奖授予了因发明“光学镊子” 和“啁啾激光脉冲放大” 两项重大技术的3
位科学家. 其中啁啾激光脉冲放大技术使得人们在实验室获得了前所未有的超短超强激光脉冲 …

Relativistic proton emission from ultrahigh-energy-density nanosphere generated by microbubble implosion

M Murakami, A Arefiev, MA Zosa, JK Koga… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Laser intensity scalings are investigated for accelerated proton energy and attainable
electrostatic field using microbubble implosion (MBI). In MBI, the bubble wall protons are …

Modelling the effects of the radiation reaction force on the interaction of thin foils with ultra-intense laser fields

MJ Duff, R Capdessus, D Del Sorbo… - Plasma Physics and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The effects of the radiation reaction (RR) force on thin foils undergoing radiation pressure
acceleration (RPA) are investigated. Using QED-particle-in-cell simulations, the influence of …

Maintaining stable radiation pressure acceleration of ion beams via cascaded electron replenishment

XF Shen, B Qiao, HX Chang, WL Zhang… - New Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
A method to maintain ion stable radiation pressure acceleration (RPA) from laser-irradiated
thin foils is proposed, where a series of high-Z nanofilms are placed behind to successively …

Efficient injection of radiation-pressure-accelerated sub-relativistic protons into laser wakefield acceleration based on 10 PW lasers

M Liu, SM Weng, HC Wang, M Chen, Q Zhao… - Physics of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We propose a hybrid laser-driven ion acceleration scheme using a combination target of a
solid foil and a density-tailored background plasma. In the first stage, a sub-relativistic proton …