[PDF] Top 20 Development of focusing plasma mirrors for ultraintense laser-driven particle and radiation sources

... use plasma-based optics to focus the laser light. The development of single-use, disposable plasma optics enables many of the short-comings discussed above to be ...Crucially, plasma ... See full document

... high-power laser-plasma science new avenues of research have been enabled by increasing the peak laser intensity ...include laser- driven particle acceleration [1, 2], ... See full document

... ultra-intense laser pulse interactions with solid ...of plasma generation in extreme conditions and the development of compact laser-driven particle and radiation ... See full document

... of laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) which shows great potential to realize compact accelerator with GeV/cm acceleration ...an ultraintense ultrashort laser pulse enters into an underdense ... See full document

... The laser-plasma source employed allows the possibility to generate the plasma efficiently and without debris production, they are also robust and easy to operate, providing relatively high EUV and ... See full document

... of radiation in a magnetic undulator-based with a view towards FEL ...ultra-violet radiation in the undulator where FEL criteria will be more readily fulfilled than at X-ray ... See full document

... new plasma-based approaches, offer much more room for ...dots), laser-plasma accelerators (red dots) and hybrid beam-driven accelerator experiments (black-red dots) are also ...contrast, ... See full document

... the plasma has been investigated theoretically using WKB and paraxial ray approximation for mode indices 0, 1 and 2 for different values of pulse am- plitude, normalized plasma density and decentred ...the ... See full document

... the laser teams at the Arcturus laser at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf and at the VULCAN PW laser at the Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton ... See full document

... hydrogen laser induced ...temporal development of the self-absorption of the H α line by tracking the decay of duplication ratio from its ideal value of ... See full document

... short laser pulses, has important implications for many applications of laser-driven high energy density physics [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...the laser- accelerated fast electron population is ... See full document

... high particle counts, and high order particle shapes are a ...study laser absorption under certain condi- tions (see [106] and [104]), but this rules out a number of the absorption processes ... See full document

... of laser-driven brems- strahlung sources is an important process in the development of predictive models that can tailor the laser and target con- ditions required for each imaging ... See full document

... the laser incident energy can be converted to fast electron through SRS and cavitation leading to a hot-electrons with temperature less than 30 ...This laser absorption takes place in the cavitation ... See full document

... relativistic plasma aperture with a diameter in the order of the linear polarization case, approximately 3 ...similar laser diffraction pattern is generated when the laser propagates through the ... See full document

... the plasma antenna, the surface wave electric field accelerates the plasma ...of plasma column (z=0) by the surface wave launcher and damps as it propagates along the internal surface of dielectric ... See full document

... intense laser interactions with solid targets, ions are always accelerated by the sheath field at both the front and rear sides of a ...two laser pulses to inject the target from both the front and back of ... See full document

... the plasma waves excited by SRS and SMI could be partially converted into electromagnetic waves via mode ...the plasma density in front of solid targets is distributed over a very large range, the ... See full document

... strong laser pulse results in discrete photon emission, which introduces a transverse electron beam spread that is distinct from that due to classical ...ultra-high laser intensities, the collective effects ... See full document

... in laser-plasma interactions is summarised by its three main mechanisms in Chapter 2; ionisation-induced defocussing, fast shuttering, and ion- isation ...of plasma mirrors; due to the solid ... See full document