Extremely high-intensity laser interactions with fundamental<? format?> quantum systems

A Di Piazza, C Müller, KZ Hatsagortsyan… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2012 - APS
The field of laser-matter interaction traditionally deals with the response of atoms, molecules,
and plasmas to an external light wave. However, the recent sustained technological …

Femtosecond x rays from laser-plasma accelerators

S Corde, K Ta Phuoc, G Lambert, R Fitour, V Malka… - Reviews of Modern …, 2013 - APS
Relativistic interaction of short-pulse lasers with underdense plasmas has recently led to the
emergence of a novel generation of femtosecond x-ray sources. Based on radiation from …

Experimental evidence of radiation reaction in the collision of a high-intensity laser pulse with a laser-wakefield accelerated electron beam

JM Cole, KT Behm, E Gerstmayr, TG Blackburn… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
The dynamics of energetic particles in strong electromagnetic fields can be heavily
influenced by the energy loss arising from the emission of radiation during acceleration …

Decoding sources of energy variability in a laser-plasma accelerator

AR Maier, NM Delbos, T Eichner, L Hübner, S Jalas… - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
Laser-plasma acceleration promises compact sources of high-brightness relativistic electron
beams. However, the limited stability often associated with laser-plasma acceleration has …

Experimental signatures of the quantum nature of radiation reaction in the field of an ultraintense laser

K Poder, M Tamburini, G Sarri, A Di Piazza, S Kuschel… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
The description of the dynamics of an electron in an external electromagnetic field of
arbitrary intensity is one of the most fundamental outstanding problems in electrodynamics …

Multi-GeV electron beams from capillary-discharge-guided subpetawatt laser pulses in the self-trapping regime

WP Leemans, AJ Gonsalves, HS Mao, K Nakamura… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
Multi-GeV electron beams with energy up to 4.2 GeV, 6% rms energy spread, 6 pC charge,
and 0.3 mrad rms divergence have been produced from a 9-cm-long capillary discharge …

Automation and control of laser wakefield accelerators using Bayesian optimization

RJ Shalloo, SJD Dann, JN Gruse… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Laser wakefield accelerators promise to revolutionize many areas of accelerator science.
However, one of the greatest challenges to their widespread adoption is the difficulty in …

Applications of laser wakefield accelerator-based light sources

F Albert, AGR Thomas - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Laser-wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) were proposed more than three decades ago, and
while they promise to deliver compact, high energy particle accelerators, they will also …

Quasi-monoenergetic laser-plasma acceleration of electrons to 2 GeV

X Wang, R Zgadzaj, N Fazel, Z Li, SA Yi… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Laser-plasma accelerators of only a centimetre's length have produced nearly
monoenergetic electron bunches with energy as high as 1 GeV. Scaling these compact …

All-optical Compton gamma-ray source

K Ta Phuoc, S Corde, C Thaury, V Malka, A Tafzi… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
One of the major goals of research for laser-plasma accelerators is the realization of
compact sources of femtosecond X-rays,,. In particular, using the modest electron energies …