Particle and radiation sources are widely employed in manifold applications. In the last
decades, the upcoming of versatile, energetic, high-brilliance laser-based sources, as …

In laser proton acceleration, laser pulses are tightly focused onto the solid target to achieve
the highest intensity. For high-frequency application-oriented laser accelerators, the need for …

We report on the cross-calibration of Thomson Parabola (TP) and Time-of-Flight (TOF)
detectors as particle diagnostics, implemented on the most recent setup of the ALLS 100 TW …

We introduce a LabVIEW-based control program that significantly improves the efficiency
and flexibility in positioning and shooting solid targets in laser–plasma experiments. The …

Proton acceleration obtained by focusing an ultraintense ultrafast laser beam presents the
technological and metrological challenge of correctly placing diffuse metallic target at the …

Multi-MeV proton beams can be generated by irradiating thin solid foils with ultra-intense (>
1018 W/cm2) short laser pulses. Several of their characteristics, such as high bunch charge …

We present a Target Positioning Interferometer (TPI), a system that uses variations of the
wavefront curvature to position solid reflective surfaces with submicrometric precision. The …

The aim of this doctoral thesis is to study the transport and the manipulation of laser driven
proton beams for both diagnostics and applications. This work is mainly separated into two …