High‐power laser systems

J Zuo, X Lin - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
High‐power laser sources are widely used in industrial precision processing and act as a
new platform for strong‐field physics research using peak power over petawatt. This review …

Proton imaging of high-energy-density laboratory plasmas

DB Schaeffer, AFA Bott, M Borghesi, KA Flippo… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
Proton imaging has become a key diagnostic for measuring electromagnetic fields in high-
energy-density (HED) laboratory plasmas. Compared to other techniques for diagnosing …

Enhanced ion acceleration using the high-energy petawatt PETAL laser

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 …

Accelerating the rate of discovery: toward high-repetition-rate HED science

T Ma, D Mariscal, R Anirudh, T Bremer… - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

A flexible proton beam imaging energy spectrometer (PROBIES) for high repetition rate or single-shot high energy density (HED) experiments

DA Mariscal, BZ Djordjević, R Anirudh… - Review of Scientific …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The PROBIES diagnostic is a new, highly flexible, imaging and energy spectrometer
designed for laser-accelerated protons. The diagnostic can detect low-mode spatial …

[HTML][HTML] Scaling of laser-driven electron and proton acceleration as a function of laser pulse duration, energy, and intensity in the multi-picosecond regime

RA Simpson, GG Scott, D Mariscal, D Rusby… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
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) …

Multivariate scaling of maximum proton energy in intense laser driven ion acceleration

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 …

Absorption and transport effects induced in plasmas by the interaction of electrons with laser speckles

M Sherlock, P Michel - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Direct electron acceleration in multi-kilojoule, multi-picosecond laser pulses

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 …

Recent progress in quantifying hydrodynamics instabilities and turbulence in inertial confinement fusion and high-energy-density experiments

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 …