[HTML][HTML] Near-100 MeV protons via a laser-driven transparency-enhanced hybrid acceleration scheme

A Higginson, RJ Gray, M King, RJ Dance… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The range of potential applications of compact laser-plasma ion sources motivates the
development of new acceleration schemes to increase achievable ion energies and …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Spectroscopic characterization of Yb3+-doped laser materials at cryogenic temperatures

J Körner, V Jambunathan, J Hein, R Seifert, M Loeser… - Applied Physics B, 2014 - Springer
We present measurements of the absorption and emission cross-sections for Yb: YAG, Yb:
LuAG and Yb: CaF 2 as a function of temperature between 80 and 340 K. The cross-sections …

New optical manipulation of relativistic vortex cutter

WP Wang, C Jiang, BF Shen, F Yuan, ZM Gan… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
A new relativistic vortex cutter driven by the Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) mode is carried out for
the first time in three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. Studies show that the electric …

[HTML][HTML] ELIMED-ELIMAIA: The first open user irradiation beamline for laser-plasma-accelerated ion beams

GAP Cirrone, G Petringa, R Catalano, F Schillaci… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The main effort of the laser-driven ion acceleration community is aimed at improving particle
beam features (in terms of final maximum energy, particle charge, and beam divergence) …

Development of control mechanisms for a laser wakefield accelerator-driven bremsstrahlung x-ray source for advanced radiographic imaging

CID Underwood, CD Baird, CD Murphy… - Plasma Physics and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A high power laser was used to accelerate electrons in a laser-driven wakefield accelerator.
The high energy electrons were then used to generate an x-ray beam by passing them …

Optimization of wavefront distortions and thermal-stress induced birefringence in a cryogenically-cooled multislab laser amplifier

O Slezak, A Lucianetti, M Divoky… - IEEE Journal of …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The optimization of the Yb: YAG gain medium and absorbing clad parameters was
investigated for efficient heat removal in cryogenically-cooled multislab amplifiers operating …

Optimisation of multi-petawatt laser-driven proton acceleration in the relativistic transparency regime

J Goodman, M King, R Wilson, RJ Gray… - New Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Laser-driven proton acceleration from ultrathin foils in the relativistic transparency regime is
investigated using 2D and 3D particle-in-cell simulations. The optimisation of the maximum …

ELI-Beamlines laser systems: status and design options

B Rus, P Bakule, D Kramer, G Korn… - High-Power, High …, 2013 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present an overview of the projected and/or implemented laser systems for ELI-
Beamlines. The ELI-Beamlines facility will be a high-energy, high repetition-rate laser pillar …

Hydrogen accumulation in nanostructured as compared to the coarse-grained tungsten

R Gonzalez-Arrabal, M Panizo-Laiz, N Gordillo… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2014 - Elsevier
We report on the influence of sample microstructure and of irradiation conditions on the H
behaviour in Tungsten (W). For this purpose, commercial coarse grained (CGW) and …