Relativistic electrons from vacuum laser acceleration using tightly focused radially polarized beams

J Powell, SW Jolly, S Vallières, F Fillion-Gourdeau… - Physical review …, 2024 - APS
We generate a tabletop pulsed relativistic electron beam at 100 Hz repetition rate from
vacuum laser acceleration by tightly focusing a radially polarized beam into a low-density …

Progress toward atomic diagnostics of ultrahigh laser intensities

MF Ciappina, SV Popruzhenko, SV Bulanov, T Ditmire… - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
We discuss and numerically test a method for direct and unambiguous measurement of
ultrahigh laser intensities exceeding 10 20 W/cm 2. The method is based on the use of …

[HTML][HTML] Focal-shape effects on the efficiency of the tunnel-ionization probe for extreme laser intensities

MF Ciappina, EE Peganov… - Matter and Radiation at …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We examine the effect of laser focusing on the effectiveness of a recently discussed scheme
[MF Ciappina et al., Phys. Rev. A 99, 043405 (2019) and MF Ciappina and SV Popruzhenko …

A systematic construction of Gaussian basis sets for the description of laser field ionization and high-harmonic generation

AP Woźniak, M Lesiuk, M Przybytek… - The Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
A precise understanding of mechanisms governing the dynamics of electrons in atoms and
molecules subjected to intense laser fields has a key importance for the description of …

Diagnostics of ultra-intense laser pulses using tunneling ionization

MF Ciappina, SV Popruzhenko - Laser Physics Letters, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We revisit a recently proposed scheme (Ciappina et al 2019 Phys. Rev. A 99 043405) for
accurate measurement of electromagnetic radiation intensities in a focus of high-power laser …

Direct laser ion acceleration and above-threshold ionization at intensities from to

A Yandow, T Toncian, T Ditmire - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
Calculations on the dynamics of ions and electrons in near-infrared laser fields at intensities
up to 3× 10 23 W/cm 2 are presented. We explore the acceleration of ions in a laser focus by …

Search for the Collective Tunneling Effect in the Ionization of Multiply Charged Li-Like Ions by Two Laser Beams of Extreme Intensity

SV Popruzhenko, DI Tyurin - Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute, 2023 - Springer
The probability of simultaneous tunneling of two electrons from multiply charged Li-like ions
in a high-intensity laser field is estimated. It is shown that for atoms with a nuclear charge Z …

Wave-front reconstruction and analysis of far-field high-order harmonics from relativistic plasma surfaces

Y Zhang, L Li, LF Gan, SP Zhu, XT He, P Zeitoun… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
With a numerical reconstruction algorithm proposed, the complete far-field wave-fronts of
harmonics, which are emitted from relativistic plasma surfaces, have been retrieved from …

Above-threshold ionization at laser intensity greater than

A Yandow, TN Ha, C Aniculaesei, HL Smith… - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
We present experimental observation of above-threshold ionization (ATI) electrons
produced by ionization of the neon K shell in a laser field where intensity exceeds 10 20 …

Optimal synchronization of laser pulses in THz generation scheme with colliding plasma wakes

IV Timofeev, EA Berendeev, VV Annenkov… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
This paper discusses optimal conditions for setting up a laboratory experiment on the
generation of narrow-band THz radiation due to the head-on collision of two plasma wakes …