Thanks to a rapid progress of high-power lasers since the birth of laser by TH Maiman in
1960, intense lasers have been developed mainly for studying the scientific feasibility of …

In the 2015 review paper 'Petawatt Class Lasers Worldwide'a comprehensive overview of
the current status of high-power facilities of was presented. This was largely based on facility …

We report on the experimental studies of laser driven ion acceleration from a double-layer
target where a near-critical density target with a few-micron thickness is coated in front of a …

Relativistic positron beams are required for fundamental research in nonlinear strong field
QED, plasma physics, and laboratory astrophysics. Positrons are difficult to create and …

An ultrabroad-band x-ray source, with photon energies from 10 keV to> 1 MeV, based on a
picosecond laser-driven plasma accelerator, is characterized and used to radiograph high …

High-intensity laser–plasma interactions produce a wide array of energetic particles and
beams with promising applications. Unfortunately, the high repetition rate and high average …

We present an experimental demonstration of the efficient acceleration of electrons beyond
60 MeV using micro-channel plasma targets. We employed a high-contrast, 2.5 J, 32 fs short …

A high-intensity laser beam propagating through a dense plasma drives a strong current that
robustly sustains a strong quasistatic azimuthal magnetic field. The laser field efficiently …

We show that ultradense Z pinches with nanoscale dimensions can be generated by
irradiating aligned nanowires with femtosecond laser pulses of relativistic intensity. Using …

Structures on the front surface of thin foil targets for laser-driven ion acceleration have been
proposed to increase the ion source maximum energy and conversion efficiency. While …