Further Development of the Short‐Pulse Petawatt Laser: Trends, Technologies, and Bottlenecks

Z Li, Y Leng, R Li - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The petawatt (PW) laser has experienced a rapid development in the past two decades, and
tens of giant facilities have been constructed worldwide. After realizing 10–100 PW, it seems …

[HTML][HTML] Turbulent mixing and transition criteria of flows induced by hydrodynamic instabilities

Y Zhou, TT Clark, DS Clark, S Gail Glendinning… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
In diverse areas of science and technology, including inertial confinement fusion (ICF),
astrophysics, geophysics, and engineering processes, turbulent mixing induced by …

Petawatt and exawatt class lasers worldwide

CN Danson, C Haefner, J Bromage… - High Power Laser …, 2019 - cambridge.org
In the 2015 review paper 'Petawatt Class Lasers Worldwide'a comprehensive overview of
the current status of high-power facilities of was presented. This was largely based on facility …

Spatiotemporal control of laser intensity

DH Froula, D Turnbull, AS Davies, TJ Kessler… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The controlled coupling of a laser to plasma has the potential to address grand scientific
challenges,,,,–, but many applications have limited flexibility and poor control over the laser …

Amplification and generation of ultra-intense twisted laser pulses via stimulated Raman scattering

J Vieira, RMGM Trines, EP Alves, RA Fonseca… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Twisted Laguerre–Gaussian lasers, with orbital angular momentum and
characterized by doughnut-shaped intensity profiles, provide a transformative set of tools …

Plasma holograms for ultrahigh-intensity optics

A Leblanc, A Denoeud, L Chopineau, G Mennerat… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
The manipulation of ultraintense laser beams gets increasingly challenging with growing
laser peak power, as the breakdown of conventional optics imposes ever larger beam …

[HTML][HTML] Generation of broadband terahertz radiation using a backward wave oscillator and pseudospark-sourced electron beam

W He, L Zhang, D Bowes, H Yin, K Ronald… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents for the generation of a small size high current density pseudospark (PS)
electron beam for a high frequency (0.2 THz) Backward Wave Oscillator (BWO) through a …

Multistep redirection by cross-beam power transfer of ultrahigh-power lasers in a plasma

JD Moody, P Michel, L Divol, RL Berger, E Bond… - Nature Physics, 2012 - nature.com
Laser redirection by cross-beam power transfer in a plasma is an important example of a
nonlinear optics process which uses laser–plasma instabilities to one's advantage. We have …

High orbital angular momentum harmonic generation

J Vieira, RMGM Trines, EP Alves, RA Fonseca… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We identify and explore a high orbital angular momentum (OAM) harmonics generation and
amplification mechanism that manipulates the OAM independently of any other laser …

Multiple-beam laser–plasma interactions in inertial confinement fusion

JF Myatt, J Zhang, RW Short, AV Maximov, W Seka… - Physics of …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The experimental evidence for multiple-beam laser-plasma instabilities of relevance to laser
driven inertial confinement fusion at the ignition scale is reviewed, in both the indirect and …