Proton imaging has become a key diagnostic for measuring electromagnetic fields in high- energy-density (HED) laboratory plasmas. Compared to other techniques for diagnosing …
D Raffestin, L Lecherbourg, I Lantuéjoul… - Matter and Radiation …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The high-energy petawatt PETAL laser system was commissioned at CEA's Laser Mégajoule facility during the 2017–2018 period. This paper reports in detail on the first …
As high-intensity short-pulse lasers that can operate at high-repetition-rate (HRR)(> 10 Hz) come online around the world, the high energy density (HED) science they enable will …
The PROBIES diagnostic is a new, highly flexible, imaging and energy spectrometer designed for laser-accelerated protons. The diagnostic can detect low-mode spatial …
A scaling study of short-pulse laser-driven proton and electron acceleration was conducted as a function of pulse duration, laser energy, and laser intensity in the multi-picosecond (ps) …
Y Takagi, N Iwata, E d'Humieres, Y Sentoku - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
The production of high-energy ions is a momentous goal of ultraintense laser lights. So far a number of experiments and numerical simulations have been conducted to obtain the …
We show that the ponderomotive force associated with laser speckles can scatter electrons in a laser-produced plasma in a manner similar to Coulomb scattering. Analytic expressions …
AJ Kemp, SC Wilks - Physics of Plasmas, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The physics mechanism behind the acceleration of electrons to energies much higher than the laser ponderomotive potential is reported. While electrons with these energies have …
A Casner - … Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Since the seminal paper of Nuckolls triggering the quest of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) with lasers, hydrodynamic instabilities have been recognized as one of the principal hurdles …