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 advent of ultraintense laser pulses generated by the technique of chirped pulse
amplification (CPA) along with the development of high-fluence laser materials has opened …

The charge separation effects in the collisionless plasma expansion into a vacuum are
studied in great detail. Accurate results are obtained concerning the structure of the ion front …

The acceleration of high-energy ion beams (up to several tens of mega-electron-volts per
nucleon) following the interaction of short (t< 1 ps) and intense (I λ 2> 1018 W˙ cm-2˙ μm-2) …

The Review covers recent progress in laser-matter interaction at intensities above 10 18 W
cm− 2. At these intensities electrons swing in the laser pulse with relativistic energies. The …

The generation of high energy protons from the interaction of a short laser pulse with a
dense plasma, accompanied by a preformed low density plasma, has been studied by …

Using 3D particle-in-cell simulations we study ion acceleration from a foil irradiated by a
laser pulse at 10 19 W/cm 2 intensity. At the front side, the laser ponderomotive force pushes …

The yield of α particles in neutronless fusion reactions B 11+ p in plasmas produced by
picosecond laser pulses with the peak intensity of 2× 10 18 W∕ cm 2 has been observed …

Intense relativistic electron beams, produced by high-intensity short-pulse laser irradiation of
a solid target, have many potential applications including fusion by fast ignition. Using a …

Multi-MeV ion production from the interaction of a short laser pulse with a high-density
plasma, accompanied by an underdense preplasma, has been studied with a particle-in-cell …