Ion acceleration driven by superintense laser pulses is attracting an impressive and steadily
increasing effort. Motivations can be found in the applicative potential and in the perspective …

Proton imaging has become a key diagnostic for measuring electromagnetic fields in high-
energy-density (HED) laboratory plasmas. Compared to other techniques for diagnosing …

Proton imaging is commonly used to reveal the electric and magnetic fields that are found in
high energy density plasmas. Presented here is an analysis of this technique that is directed …

The interaction between two co-propagating electromagnetic pulses in a magnetized
plasma is considered, from first principles, relying on a fluid-Maxwell model. Two circularly …

Experiments were performed using the Omega EP laser, which provided pulses containing
1kJ of energy in 9ps and was used to investigate high-power, relativistic intensity laser …

Laser pulses of extreme intensities (>-I 10 W cm 22 2) are about to become available in the
laboratory. The prepulse of such a laser can induce a plasma expansion that generates a …

With the recent advances in ultrahigh intensity lasers, exotic astrophysical phenomena can
be investigated in laboratory environments. Collisionless shock in a plasma, prevalent in …

Context. Coherent radiation of pulsars, magnetars, and fast radio bursts could, in theory, be
interpreted as radiation from solitons and soliton-like waves. Solitons are meant to contain a …

Laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) is a promising technique to build compact and
powerful particle accelerators. In such accelerators, the electric fields required to accelerate …

In laser-plasma experiments, we observed that ion acceleration from the Coulomb explosion
of the plasma channel bored by the laser is prevented when multiple plasma instabilities …