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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Pushing the frontier in the design of laser-based electron accelerators with groundbreaking mesh-refined particle-in-cell simulations on exascale-class …

L Fedeli, A Huebl, F Boillod-Cerneux… - … conference for high …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
(150 word max) We present a first-of-kind mesh-refined (MR) massively parallel Particle-In-
Cell (PIC) code for kinetic plasma simulations optimized on the Frontier, Fugaku, Summit …

[HTML][HTML] EuPRAXIA conceptual design report

RW Assmann, MK Weikum, T Akhter, D Alesini… - The European Physical …, 2020 - Springer
This report presents the conceptual design of a new European research infrastructure
EuPRAXIA. The concept has been established over the last four years in a unique …

Near-GeV electron beams at a few per-mille level from a laser wakefield accelerator via density-tailored plasma

LT Ke, K Feng, WT Wang, ZY Qin, CH Yu, Y Wu… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
A simple, efficient scheme was developed to obtain near-gigaelectronvolt electron beams
with energy spreads of few per-mille level in a single-stage laser wakefield accelerator …

Enhancement of electron energy to the multi-GeV regime by a dual-stage laser-wakefield accelerator pumped by petawatt laser pulses

HT Kim, KH Pae, HJ Cha, IJ Kim, TJ Yu, JH Sung… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
Laser-wakefield acceleration offers the promise of a compact electron accelerator for
generating a multi-GeV electron beam using the huge field gradient induced by an intense …

Injection and trapping of tunnel-ionized electrons into laser-produced wakes

A Pak, KA Marsh, SF Martins, W Lu, WB Mori, C Joshi - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
A method, which utilizes the large difference in ionization potentials between successive
ionization states of trace atoms, for injecting electrons into a laser-driven wakefield is …