[HTML][HTML] Saddle point approaches in strong field physics and generation of attosecond pulses

A Nayak, M Dumergue, S Kühn, S Mondal… - Physics reports, 2019 - Elsevier
Attoscience is the emerging field that accesses the fastest electronic processes occurring at
the atomic and molecular length scales with attosecond (1 as= 1 0− 18 s) time resolution …

Dynamics of relativistic transparency and optical shuttering in expanding overdense plasmas

S Palaniyappan, BM Hegelich, HC Wu, D Jung… - Nature Physics, 2012 - nature.com
Overdense plasmas are usually opaque to laser light. However, when the light is of sufficient
intensity to drive electrons in the plasma to near light speeds, the plasma becomes …

Attosecond delay lines: design, characterization and applications

A Mandal, MS Sidhu, JM Rost, T Pfeifer… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
Attosecond delay lines are key to enable time-resolved measurements on atoms, molecules,
plasma and solid-state materials. This tutorial review presents the current status of a wide …

Direct observation of turbulent magnetic fields in hot, dense laser produced plasmas

S Mondal, V Narayanan, WJ Ding… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Turbulence in fluids is a ubiquitous, fascinating, and complex natural phenomenon that is
not yet fully understood. Unraveling turbulence in high density, high temperature plasmas is …

Observation of ultrafast solid-density plasma dynamics using femtosecond X-ray pulses from a free-electron laser

T Kluge, M Rödel, J Metzkes-Ng, A Pelka, AL Garcia… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
The complex physics of the interaction between short-pulse ultrahigh-intensity lasers and
solids is so far difficult to access experimentally, and the development of compact laser …

Few-femtosecond resolved imaging of laser-driven nanoplasma expansion

C Peltz, JA Powell, P Rupp, A Summers… - New Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The free expansion of a planar plasma surface is a fundamental non-equilibrium process
relevant for various fields but as-yet experimentally still difficult to capture. The significance …

Single-shot, spatio-temporal analysis of relativistic plasma optics

A Dulat, AD Lad, C Aparajit, A Choudhary, YM Ved… - Optica, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Plasma optics, promising for sha** and amplifying ultra-high-power laser pulses, are
subject to the huge modulations and fluctuations inherent in plasma excitation at high …

Time-resolved x-ray imaging of anisotropic nanoplasma expansion

C Peltz, C Varin, T Brabec, T Fennel - Physical Review Letters, 2014 - APS
A complete time-resolved x-ray imaging experiment of laser heated solid-density hydrogen
clusters is modeled by microscopic particle-in-cell simulations that account self-consistently …

Cylindrical compression of thin wires by irradiation with a Joule-class short-pulse laser

A Laso Garcia, L Yang, V Bouffetier, K Appel… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Equation of state measurements at Jovian or stellar conditions are currently conducted by
dynamic shock compression driven by multi-kilojoule multi-beam nanosecond-duration …

Dynamics of relativistic laser-plasma interaction on solid targets

Y **, AJ Kemp, L Divol, MH Key, PK Patel, KU Akli… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
A novel time-resolved diagnostic is used to record the critical surface motion during
picosecond-scale relativistic laser interaction with a solid target. Single-shot measurements …