Towards the optimisation of direct laser acceleration

AE Hussein, AV Arefiev, T Batson, H Chen… - New Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Experimental measurements using the OMEGA EP laser facility demonstrated direct laser
acceleration (DLA) of electron beams to (505±75) MeV with (140±30) nC of charge from a …

Direct laser acceleration of electrons assisted by strong laser-driven azimuthal plasma magnetic fields

Z Gong, F Mackenroth, T Wang, XQ Yan, T Toncian… - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
A high-intensity laser beam propagating through a dense plasma drives a strong current that
robustly sustains a strong quasistatic azimuthal magnetic field. The laser field efficiently …

Relativistically transparent magnetic filaments: scaling laws, initial results and prospects for strong-field QED studies

HG Rinderknecht, T Wang, AL Garcia… - New Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Relativistic transparency enables volumetric laser interaction with overdense plasmas and
direct laser acceleration of electrons to relativistic velocities. The dense electron current …

Ion heating in laser interacting with magnetized plasma

R Juneja, T Dhalia, LP Goswami, S Maity… - Plasma Physics and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The ion heating mechanism in the context of laser interacting with plasma immersed in a
strong magnetic field is studied. The electron motion transverse to the magnetic field gets …

Strong surface magnetic field generation in relativistic short pulse laser–plasma interaction with an applied seed magnetic field

K Weichman, APL Robinson, M Murakami… - New Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
While plasma often behaves diamagnetically, we demonstrate that the laser irradiation of a
thin opaque target with an embedded target-transverse seed magnetic field B seed can …

Arbitrary Time Sha** of Broadband Low-Coherence Light Based on Optical Parametric Amplification

Y Wang, X Wang, M Sun, X Liang, H Wei, W Fan - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Laser–plasma interactions (LPIs) hinder the interaction of high-energy laser pulses with
targets. The use of broadband low-coherence light has been proposed to reduce the impact …

Deciphering in situ electron dynamics of ultrarelativistic plasma via polarization pattern of emitted -photons

Z Gong, KZ Hatsagortsyan, CH Keitel - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
Understanding and interpretation of the dynamics of ultrarelativistic plasma is a challenge,
which calls for the development of methods for in situ probing the plasma dynamical …

Electron acceleration by a tightly focused laser pulse in an ion channel

R Jeet, HS Ghotra, A Kumar, N Kant - The European Physical Journal D, 2021 - Springer
We examine the electron acceleration by tightly focused radially polarized laser beam in a
preformed ion channel. The tight focusing and polarization of laser beam takes the …

Algorithm for computing the electron-positron yield from the linear Breit-Wheeler process in high-intensity laser-plasma interactions

Y He, A Arefiev - Computer Physics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
High-intensity laser-plasma interactions have been shown to generate dense populations of
gamma-rays, so these interactions are expected to generate electron-positron pairs via …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient backward x-ray emission in a finite-length plasma irradiated by a laser pulse of picosecond duration

IL Yeh, K Tangtartharakul, H Tang, L Willingale… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Motivated by experiments employing picosecond-long, kilojoule laser pulses, we examined
x-ray emission in a finite-length underdense plasma irradiated by such a pulse using two …