Self-focusing, compression and collapse of ultrashort weakly-relativistic Laguerre–Gaussian lasers in near-critical plasma

TC Wilson, ZM Sheng, P McKenna… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Simultaneous self-focusing and compression of ultrashort weakly-relativistic Laguerre–
Gaussian laser pulses in dense plasma is investigated theoretically and numerically. A …

Proton acceleration driven by relativistic femtosecond Laguerre–Gaussian lasers

W Wang - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2024 - Springer
With the advancement of ultra-intense and ultra-short laser technology, lasers have
achieved new parameters in femtosecond (10–15 s) and petawatt (10 15 W) ranges. Ion …

Efficient bright γ-ray vortex emission from a laser-illuminated light-fan-in-channel target

H Zhang, J Zhao, Y Hu, Q Li, Y Lu, Y Cao… - High Power Laser …, 2021 - cambridge.org
X/γ-rays have many potential applications in laboratory astrophysics and particle physics.
Although several methods have been proposed for generating electron, positron, and X/γ …

[HTML][HTML] Generation of the vortex terahertz radiation by the interaction of two-color Laguerre–Gaussian laser with plasmas in the presence of a static magnetic field

DS Zhang, XR Hong, XB Zhang, RA Tang… - Physics of Plasmas, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The generation of vortex terahertz (THz) radiation by the interaction of a two-color Laguerre–
Gaussian (LG) laser with plasmas under an external magnetic field is investigated …

Study of particle acceleration by Laguerre–Gaussian ultra intense laser plasma interactions

O Culfa, S Sagir, I Satilmis - Plasma Physics and Controlled …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, simulations of multi-petawatt lasers in the range of∼ 0.2 PW–∼ 100 PW with
varying Laguerre–Gaussian (LG) azimuthal modes as well as linearly polarized (LP) and …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced proton acceleration and collimation via vortex laser irradiated micro-tube foil target

JZ He, H Dong, WP Wang, YX Leng, RX Li, ZZ Xu - Physics of Plasmas, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Laser-driven particle acceleration has attracted significant attention due to its potential for
compact and cost-effective particle accelerator. Currently, the generation of highly collimated …

Ultra-intense vortex laser generation from a seed laser illuminated axial line-focused spiral zone plate

H Zhang, Q Li, C Zheng, J Zhao, Y Lu, D Li, X Xu… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Relativistic vortex laser has drawn increasing attention in the laser-plasma community owing
to its potential applications in various domains, eg, generation of energetic charged particles …