[HTML][HTML] Direct-drive inertial confinement fusion: A review

RS Craxton, KS Anderson, TR Boehly… - Physics of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The direct-drive, laser-based approach to inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is reviewed from
its inception following the demonstration of the first laser to its implementation on the present …

Review of laser-driven ion sources and their applications

H Daido, M Nishiuchi… - Reports on progress in …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
For many years, laser-driven ion acceleration, mainly proton acceleration, has been
proposed and a number of proof-of-principle experiments have been carried out with lasers …

The National Ignition Facility: Ushering in a new age for high energy density science

EI Moses, RN Boyd, BA Remington, CJ Keane… - Physics of …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
The National Ignition Facility (NIF)[EI Moses, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 112, 012003 (2008);
https://lasers. llnl. gov/], completed in March 2009, is the highest energy laser ever …

QED cascades induced by circularly polarized laser fields

NV Elkina, AM Fedotov, IY Kostyukov, MV Legkov… - Physical Review Special …, 2011 - APS
The results of Monte-Carlo simulations of electron-positron-photon cascades initiated by
slow electrons in circularly polarized fields of ultrahigh strength are presented and …

Multiple Colliding Electromagnetic Pulses: A Way to Lower the Threshold <?format ?>of Pair Production from Vacuum

SS Bulanov, VD Mur, NB Narozhny, J Nees, VS Popov - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
The scheme of a simultaneous multiple pulse focusing on one spot naturally arises from the
structural features of projected new laser systems, such as the Extreme Light Infrastructure …

Photon Bubbles and Ion Acceleration in a Plasma Dominated by the Radiation Pressure<? format?> of an Electromagnetic Pulse

F Pegoraro, SV Bulanov - Physical review letters, 2007 - APS
The stability of a thin plasma foil accelerated by the radiation pressure of a high intensity
electromagnetic (em) pulse is investigated analytically and with particle in cell numerical …

[HTML][HTML] First-principles study of metallic impurities induced 355 nm UV laser absorption in fused silica

Q Feng, X Zu, B Wang, L Sun, X **ang, L Li… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
To date, it is controversial which metallic impurities play crucial role in the laser induced
degradation and damage of fused silica at 355 nm. In this work, a First-principles study for …

[BOOK][B] Laser-matter interaction for radiation and energy

HK Malik - 2021 - books.google.com
The interaction of high-power lasers with matter can generate Terahertz radiations that
efficiently contribute to THz Time-Domain Spectroscopy and also would replace X-rays in …

Schwinger limit attainability with extreme power lasers

SS Bulanov, TZ Esirkepov, AGR Thomas, JK Koga… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
High intensity colliding laser pulses can create abundant electron-positron pair plasma [AR
Bell and JG Kirk, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 200403 (2008) PRLTAO 0031-9007 …

Electromagnetic cascade in high-energy electron, positron, and photon interactions with intense laser pulses

SS Bulanov, CB Schroeder, E Esarey… - Physical Review A—Atomic …, 2013 - APS
The interaction of high-energy electrons, positrons, and photons with intense laser pulses is
studied in head-on collision geometry. It is shown that electrons and/or positrons undergo a …