Realization of laser intensity over 1023 W/cm2

JW Yoon, YG Kim, IW Choi, JH Sung, HW Lee, SK Lee… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
High-intensity lasers are critical for the exploration of strong field quantum electrodynamics.
We report here a demonstration of laser intensity exceeding 10^23W/cm^2 with the CoReLS …

[HTML][HTML] Gamma photons and electron-positron pairs from ultra-intense laser-matter interaction: A comparative study of proposed configurations

YJ Gu, M Jirka, O Klimo, S Weber - Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
High-energy γ-photon generation via nonlinear Compton scattering and electron–positron
pair creation via the Breit–Wheeler process driven by laser–plasma interaction are modeled …

ELIMAIA: A laser-driven ion accelerator for multidisciplinary applications

D Margarone, GAP Cirrone, G Cuttone, A Amico… - Quantum Beam …, 2018 - mdpi.com
The main direction proposed by the community of experts in the field of laser-driven ion
acceleration is to improve particle beam features (maximum energy, charge, emittance …

Achieving the laser intensity of 5.5×1022 W/cm2 with a wavefront-corrected multi-PW laser

JW Yoon, C Jeon, J Shin, SK Lee, HW Lee, IW Choi… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The generation of ultrahigh intensity laser pulses was investigated by tightly focusing a
wavefront-corrected multi-petawatt Ti: sapphire laser. For the wavefront correction of the PW …

High-contrast high-intensity repetitive petawatt laser

H Kiriyama, AS Pirozhkov, M Nishiuchi, Y Fukuda… - Optics letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We report the generation of 63 J of broadband pulse energies at 0.1 Hz from the J-KAREN-P
laser, which is based on an OPCPA/Ti: sapphire hybrid architecture. Pulse compression …

Enhanced ion acceleration from transparency-driven foils demonstrated at two ultraintense laser facilities

NP Dover, T Ziegler, S Assenbaum, C Bernert… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Laser-driven ion sources are a rapidly developing technology producing high energy, high
peak current beams. Their suitability for applications, such as compact medical accelerators …

Circumventing the dephasing and depletion limits of laser-wakefield acceleration

A Debus, R Pausch, A Huebl, K Steiniger, R Widera… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
Compact electron accelerators are paramount to next-generation synchrotron light sources
and free-electron lasers, as well as for advanced accelerators at the TeV energy frontier …

Dynamics of laser-driven heavy-ion acceleration clarified by ion charge states

M Nishiuchi, NP Dover, M Hata, H Sakaki, K Kondo… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Motivated by the development of next-generation heavy-ion sources, we have investigated
the ionization and acceleration dynamics of an ultraintense laser-driven high-Z silver target …

Improvement of the focusing ability by double deformable mirrors for 10-PW-level Ti: sapphire chirped pulse amplification laser system

Z Guo, L Yu, J Wang, C Wang, Y Liu, Z Gan, W Li… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Double deformable mirrors (DMs) with different actuator densities are cascaded to optimize
the wavefront aberrations to improve the focus intensity of the Shanghai super-intense …

Effect of small focus on electron heating and proton acceleration in ultrarelativistic laser-solid interactions

NP Dover, M Nishiuchi, H Sakaki, K Kondo… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
Acceleration of particles from the interaction of ultraintense laser pulses up to 5× 10 21 W
cm− 2 with thin foils is investigated experimentally. The electron beam parameters varied …