Targets for high repetition rate laser facilities: needs, challenges and perspectives

I Prencipe, J Fuchs, S Pascarelli… - High Power Laser …, 2017 - cambridge.org
A number of laser facilities coming online all over the world promise the capability of high-
power laser experiments with shot repetition rates between 1 and 10 Hz. Target availability …

[HTML][HTML] Invited Review Article:“Hands-on” laser-driven ion acceleration: A primer for laser-driven source development and potential applications

J Schreiber, PR Bolton, K Parodi - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Invited Review Article: “Hands-on” laser-driven ion acceleration: A primer for laser-driven source
development and potential applications | Review of Scientific Instruments | AIP Publishing Skip …

4.2 PW, 20 fs Ti: sapphire laser at 0.1 Hz

JH Sung, HW Lee, JY Yoo, JW Yoon, CW Lee… - Optics letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrated the generation of 4.2 PW laser pulses at 0.1 Hz from a chirped-pulse
amplification Ti: sapphire laser. The cross-polarized wave generation and the optical …

Radiation pressure acceleration of protons to 93 MeV with circularly polarized petawatt laser pulses

IJ Kim, KH Pae, IW Choi, CL Lee, HT Kim… - Physics of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
The radiation pressure acceleration (RPA) of charged particles has been a challenging task
in laser-driven proton/ion acceleration due to its stringent requirements in laser and target …

Laser acceleration of highly energetic carbon ions using a double-layer target composed of slightly underdense plasma and ultrathin foil

WJ Ma, IJ Kim, JQ Yu, IW Choi, PK Singh, HW Lee… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We report the experimental generation of highly energetic carbon ions up to 48 MeV per
nucleon by shooting double-layer targets composed of well-controlled slightly underdense …

Guided post-acceleration of laser-driven ions by a miniature modular structure

S Kar, H Ahmed, R Prasad, M Cerchez… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
All-optical approaches to particle acceleration are currently attracting a significant research
effort internationally. Although characterized by exceptional transverse and longitudinal …

On the problems of relativistic laboratory astrophysics and fundamental physics with super powerful lasers

SV Bulanov, TZ Esirkepov, M Kando, J Koga… - Plasma Physics …, 2015 - Springer
The ways toward modeling of astrophysical processes and extreme field regimes with super-
power lasers are discussed. The main attention is paid to the problem of limited similarity in …

Laser ion acceleration for hadron therapy

SV Bulanov, JJ Wilkens, TZ Esirkepov, G Korn… - Physics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The paper examines the prospects of using laser plasma as a source of high-energy ions for
the purpose of hadron beam therapy—an approach which is based on both theory and …

First results with the novel petawatt laser acceleration facility in Dresden

U Schramm, M Bussmann, A Irman… - Journal of Physics …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on first commissioning results of the DRACO Petawatt ultra-short pulse laser
system implemented at the ELBE center for high power radiation sources of Helmholtz …

Sub-10 fs pulse generation by post-compression for peak-power enhancement of a 100-TW Ti: Sapphire laser

JI Kim, YG Kim, JM Yang, JW Yoon, JH Sung… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrated sub-10 fs pulse generation by the post-compression of a 100 TW Ti:
Sapphire laser to enhance the peak-power. In the post-compression, the laser spectrum was …