Ion acceleration by superintense laser-plasma interaction

A Macchi, M Borghesi, M Passoni - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2013 - APS
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 …

Optics in the relativistic regime

GA Mourou, T Tajima, SV Bulanov - Reviews of modern physics, 2006 - APS
The advent of ultraintense laser pulses generated by the technique of chirped pulse
amplification (CPA) along with the development of high-fluence laser materials has opened …

[BOOK][B] Short pulse laser interactions with matter: an introduction

P Gibbon - 2005 - books.google.com
This book represents the first comprehensive treatment of the subject, covering the
theoretical principles, present experimental status and important applications of short-pulse …

Measurements of energetic proton transport through magnetized plasma from intense laser interactions with solids

EL Clark, K Krushelnick, JR Davies, M Zepf… - Physical Review Letters, 2000 - APS
Protons with energies up to 18 MeV have been measured from high density laser-plasma
interactions at incident laser intensities of 5× 10 19 W/cm 2. Up to 10 12 protons with …

Forward ion acceleration in thin films driven by a high-intensity laser

A Maksimchuk, S Gu, K Flippo, D Umstadter… - Physical Review Letters, 2000 - APS
A collimated beam of fast protons, with energies as high as 1.5 MeV and total number of≳ 10
9, confined in a cone angle of 40±10 is observed when a high-intensity high-contrast …

Fast heating scalable to laser fusion ignition

R Kodama, H Shiraga, K Shigemori, Y Toyama… - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Rapid heating of a compressed fusion fuel by a short-duration laser pulse is a promising
route to generating energy by nuclear fusion, and has been demonstrated on an …

Fast ion generation by high-intensity laser irradiation of solid targets and applications

M Borghesi, J Fuchs, SV Bulanov… - Fusion science and …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
The acceleration of high-energy ion beams (up to several tens of mega-electron-volts per
nucleon) following the interaction of short (t< 1 ps) and intense (I λ 2> 1018 W˙ cm-2˙ μm-2) …

Relativistic high-power laser–matter interactions

YI Salamin, SX Hu, KZ Hatsagortsyan, CH Keitel - Physics Reports, 2006 - Elsevier
Recent advances in laser technology have pushed the frontier of maximum intensity
achieved to about 1022W/cm2 and investigators currently believe even higher intensities …

New trends and future perspectives on plasma focus research

L Soto - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper includes a brief overview of the contributions and results of several groups
working in plasma focus (PF) devices around the world in the last few years. In section 2 a …

Laser-driven neutron generation realizing single-shot resonance spectroscopy

A Yogo, Z Lan, Y Arikawa, Y Abe, SR Mirfayzi, T Wei… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
Neutrons are powerful tools for investigating the structure and properties of materials used in
science and technology. Recently, laser-driven neutron sources (LDNS) have attracted the …