Plasma -plate for generation and manipulation of intense optical vortices

K Qu, Q Jia, NJ Fisch - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
An optical vortex is a light wave with a twisting wavefront around its propagation axis and
null intensity in the beam center. Its unique spatial structure of field lends itself to a broad …

Joule-level high-efficiency energy transfer to subpicosecond laser pulses by a plasma-based amplifier

JR Marquès, L Lancia, T Gangolf, M Blecher… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
Power amplification and pulse compression of short-pulse laser beams by three-wave
nonlinear processes in a plasma was proposed by Malkin, Shvets, and Fisch [Phys. Rev …

The effect of scattering instability induced by high intensity seed on backward Raman amplification

J Li, X Wang, Z Wang, X Zhang, J Li, Z Wei - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Backward Raman amplification (BRA) in plasma has become one of the most promising
techniques for further promoting light intensity. In this work, BRA in plasma is simulated …

Dynamics of nanosecond laser pulse propagation and of associated instabilities in a magnetized underdense plasma

W Yao, A Higginson, JR Marquès, P Antici, J Béard… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The propagation and energy coupling of intense laser beams in plasmas are critical issues
in inertial confinement fusion. Applying magnetic fields to such a setup has been shown to …

Kinetic simulations of ladder climbing by electron plasma waves

K Hara, I Barth, E Kaminski, IY Dodin, NJ Fisch - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
The energy of plasma waves can be moved up and down the spectrum using chirped
modulations of plasma parameters, which can be driven by external fields. Depending on …

[HTML][HTML] Beam cleaning of an incoherent laser via plasma Raman amplification

MR Edwards, K Qu, JM Mikhailova, NJ Fisch - Physics of Plasmas, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We show that backward Raman amplification in plasma can efficiently compress a
temporally incoherent pump laser into an intense coherent amplified seed pulse, provided …

Producing entangled photon pairs and quantum squeezed states in plasmas

K Qu, NJ Fisch - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
Plasma is capable of mediating the conversion of two pump photons into two different
photons through a relativistic four-wave mixing nonlinearity. Spontaneously created photon …

[HTML][HTML] Laser compression via fast-extending plasma gratings

Z Wu, Y Zuo, X Zeng, Z Li, Z Zhang, X Wang… - Matter and Radiation …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
A method is proposed for compressing laser pulses by fast-extending plasma gratings
(FEPGs), which are created by ionizing a hypersonic wave generated by stimulated Brillouin …

Flying focus and its application to plasma-based laser amplifiers

D Turnbull, SW Bahk, IA Begishev, R Boni… - Plasma Physics and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Combining a chirped laser pulse with a chromatic lens yields a flying focus—a laser focus
that moves dynamically in time. This provides control over the propagation of the peak laser …

A comprehensive review on amplification of laser pulses via stimulated Raman scattering and stimulated Brillouin scattering in plasmas

R Miriam Cheriyan, N Varghese, RS Sooraj, KH Rao… - Plasma, 2022 - mdpi.com
The demand for high-intensity lasers has grown ever since the invention of lasers in 1960,
owing to their applications in the fields of inertial confinement fusion, plasma-based …