Metal nanoplasmas as bright sources of hard x-ray pulses

PP Rajeev, P Taneja, P Ayyub, AS Sandhu, GR Kumar - Physical review letters, 2003‏ - APS
We report significant enhancements in light coupling to intense-laser-created solid plasmas
via surface plasmon and “lightning rod” effects. We demonstrate this in metal nanoparticle …

Evidence of resonant surface-wave excitation in the relativistic regime through measurements of proton acceleration from grating targets

T Ceccotti, V Floquet, A Sgattoni, A Bigongiari, O Klimo… - Physical review …, 2013‏ - APS
The interaction of laser pulses with thin grating targets, having a periodic groove at the
irradiated surface, is experimentally investigated. Ultrahigh contrast (<? format?>∼< …

Surface plasmons in superintense laser-solid interactions

A Macchi - Physics of Plasmas, 2018‏ - pubs.aip.org
We review studies of superintense laser interactions with solid targets where the generation
of propagating surface plasmons (or surface waves) plays a key role. These studies include …

Luminous, relativistic, directional electron bunches from an intense laser driven grating plasma

AD Lad, Y Mishima, PK Singh, B Li, A Adak… - Scientific Reports, 2022‏ - nature.com
Bright, energetic, and directional electron bunches are generated through efficient energy
transfer of relativistic intense (~ 1019 W/cm2), 30 femtosecond, 800 nm high contrast laser …

Strongly enhanced laser absorption and electron acceleration via resonant excitation of surface plasma waves

M Raynaud, J Kupersztych, C Riconda, JC Adam… - Physics of …, 2007‏ - pubs.aip.org
Two-dimensional (2D) particle-in-cell numerical simulations of the interaction between a
high-intensity short-pulse p-polarized laser beam and an overdense plasma are presented …

Nanostructures, local fields, and enhanced absorption in intense light–matter interaction

PP Rajeev, P Ayyub, S Bagchi, GR Kumar - Optics letters, 2004‏ - opg.optica.org
Recent literature has reported impressive enhancements in hard-x-ray emission from short-
lived solid plasmas by modulation of the interacting surface with nanostructures. We show …

Surface plasmon-driven electron and proton acceleration without grating coupling

J Sarma, A McIlvenny, N Das, M Borghesi… - New Journal of …, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Surface plasmon (SP) excitation in intense laser interaction with solid target can be
exploited for enhancing secondary emissions, in particular efficient acceleration of high …

Comparison of measured and calculated x-ray and hot-electron production in short-pulse laser-solid interactions at moderate intensities

T Schlegel, S Bastiani, L Gremillet, JP Geindre… - Physical Review E, 1999‏ - APS
Ultrashort pulse laser-solid interaction experiments with 4× 10 16 W/cm 2, 120 fs, 45
incidence angle, p-polarized pulses are theoretically analyzed with the help of 1 1 2 …

Efficient laser-overdense plasma coupling via surface plasma waves and steady magnetic field generation

A Bigongiari, M Raynaud, C Riconda, A Héron… - Physics of …, 2011‏ - pubs.aip.org
The efficiency of laser overdense plasma coupling via surface plasma wave excitation is
investigated. Two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations are performed over a wide range …

X-ray yield scaling studies performed on the OMEGA laser

J Workman, GA Kyrala - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2001‏ - pubs.aip.org
We have performed experiments with planar targets on the OMEGA laser facility at the
University of Rochester. These experiments investigated the scaling of x-ray yield and …