Laser-driven nonlinear cluster dynamics

T Fennel, KH Meiwes-Broer, J Tiggesbäumker… - Reviews of modern …, 2010 - APS
Laser excitation of nanometer-sized atomic and molecular clusters offers various
opportunities to explore and control ultrafast many-particle dynamics. Whereas weak laser …

[BOOK][B] Handbook of nanophysics: clusters and fullerenes

KD Sattler - 2010 - taylorfrancis.com
The field of nanoscience was pioneered in the 1980s with the groundbreaking research on
clusters, which later led to the discovery of fullerenes. Handbook of Nanophysics: Clusters …

Anisotropic surface broadening and core depletion during the evolution of a strong-field induced nanoplasma

C Bacellar, AS Chatterley, F Lackner, CD Pemmaraju… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Strong-field ionization of nanoscale clusters provides excellent opportunities to study the
complex correlated electronic and nuclear dynamics of near-solid density plasmas. Yet …

Unveiling the inhomogeneous nature of strong field ionization in extended systems

H Park, A Camacho Garibay, Z Wang, T Gorman… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Intense light-induced fragmentation of spherical clusters produces highly energetic ions with
characteristic spatial distributions. By subjecting argon clusters to a wavelength tunable …

Kinetic energy of ions after Coulomb explosion of clusters induced by an intense laser pulse

MR Islam, U Saalmann, JM Rost - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and …, 2006 - APS
It is shown that the kinetic-energy distribution of ions emerging from a cluster target
irradiated by an intense laser pulse arises from three main effects:(1) the spatial profile of the …

Dynamics and Control of Shock Shells in the Coulomb Explosion<? format?> of Very Large Deuterium Clusters

F Peano, RA Fonseca, LO Silva - Physical review letters, 2005 - APS
The explosion dynamics of very large (<? format?>∼<? format?> 10 6–10 7 atoms)
deuterium clusters irradiated by ultraintense laser pulses (I∼ 10 18 W/cm 2) is analyzed self …

Pulse-Length Dependence of the Anisotropy of Laser-Driven Cluster Explosions:<? format?> Transition to the Impulsive Regime for Pulses Approaching the Few …

E Skopalová, YC El-Taha, A Zaïr, M Hohenberger… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
We have experimentally observed anisotropic ion emission from Xe and Ar clusters under
intense ultrashort (<? format?>∼<? format?> 30 fs) laser irradiation, with up to 1.8 times …

Nanoplasmonic electron acceleration in silver clusters studied by angular-resolved electron spectroscopy

J Passig, R Irsig, NX Truong, T Fennel… - New Journal of …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The nanoplasmonic field enhancement effects in the energetic electron emission from few-
nm-sized silver clusters exposed to intense femtosecond dual pulses are investigated by …

Anisotropic explosions of hydrogen clusters under intense femtosecond laser irradiation

DR Symes, M Hohenberger, A Henig, T Ditmire - Physical review letters, 2007 - APS
We report on measurements of ion energy distributions from hydrogen clusters irradiated by
intense laser pulses of duration 40 and 250 fs. Contrary to the predictions of a simple …

A Thomson parabola ion imaging spectrometer designed to probe relativistic intensity ionization dynamics of nanoclusters

R Rajeev, KPM Rishad, TM Trivikram… - Review of Scientific …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Conventional techniques of probing ionization dynamics at relativistic intensities for
extended target systems such as clusters are difficult both due to problems of achieving …