Relativistic interaction of short-pulse lasers with underdense plasmas has recently led to the
emergence of a novel generation of femtosecond x-ray sources. Based on radiation from …

Laser-wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) were proposed more than three decades ago, and
while they promise to deliver compact, high energy particle accelerators, they will also …

Ultra-intense MeV photon and neutron beams are indispensable tools in many research
fields such as nuclear, atomic and material science as well as in medical and biophysical …

Intense lasers enable generating high-energy particle beams in university-scale
laboratories. With the direct laser acceleration (DLA) method, the leading part of the laser …

Laser-driven plasma-based accelerators, which are capable of supporting fields in excess of
100 GV∕ m, are reviewed. This includes the laser wakefield accelerator, the plasma beat …

This book is on inertial confinement fusion, an alternative way to produce electrical power
from hydrogen fuel by using powerful lasers or particle beams. It involves the compression of …

Particle accelerators are used in a wide variety of fields, ranging from medicine and biology
to high-energy physics. The accelerating fields in conventional accelerators are limited to a …

Laser-driven accelerators, in which particles are accelerated by the electric field of a plasma
wave (the wakefield) driven by an intense laser, have demonstrated accelerating electric …

High-power lasers that fit into a university-scale laboratory can now reach focused
intensities of more than 1019 W cm-2 at high repetition rates. Such lasers are capable of …

We use three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations to study laser wake field acceleration
(LWFA) at highly relativistic laser intensities. We observe ultra-short electron bunches …