Boron-proton nuclear-fusion enhancement induced in boron-doped silicon targets by low-contrast pulsed laser

A Picciotto, D Margarone, A Velyhan, P Bellutti, J Krasa… - Physical Review X, 2014 - APS
We show that a spatially well-defined layer of boron dopants in a hydrogen-enriched silicon
target allows the production of a high yield of alpha particles of around 10 9 per steradian …

Self-focusing of cosh-Gaussian laser beam in a plasma with weakly relativistic and ponderomotive regime

TS Gill, R Mahajan, R Kaur - Physics of Plasmas, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents an investigation of the self-focusing of cosh-Gaussian laser beam in a
plasma with linear absorption taking into account the combined effects of relativistic and …

Self-focusing of super-Gaussian laser beam inmagnetized plasma under relativistic and ponderomotive regime

TS Gill, R Kaur, R Mahajan - Optik, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, we have investigated the propagation characteristics of super-Gaussian laser
beam in magnetized plasma. Self-focusing of short pulse laser propagating along the …

Laser fusion with nonlinear force driven plasma blocks: Thresholds and dielectric effects

H Hora - Laser and Particle Beams, 2009 - cambridge.org
Anomalous interaction of picosecond laser pulses of terawatt to petawatt power is due to
suppression of relativistic self-focusing if prepulses are cut-off by a contrast ratio higher than …

Protons accelerated in the target normal sheath acceleration regime by a femtosecond laser

L Torrisi, M Cutroneo, A Torrisi, L Silipigni, G Costa… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2019 - APS
Advanced targets based on thin films of graphene oxide covered by metallic layers have
been irradiated at high laser intensity (∼ 10 19 W/cm 2) with 40 fs laser pulses to investigate …

Propagation of circularly polarized quadruple Gaussian laser beam in magnetoplasma

M Aggarwal, S Vij, N Kant - Optik, 2015 - Elsevier
The propagation of circularly polarized quadruple Gaussian laser beam in underdense
magnetoplasma has been investigated. The effect of externally applied axial magnetic field …

Self-focusing of Gaussian laser beam through collisionless plasmas and its effect on second harmonic generation

A Singh, K Walia - Journal of fusion energy, 2011 - Springer
This paper presents an investigation of self-focusing of gaussian laser beam in a
collisionless plasma and its effect on second harmonic generation. In the presence of …

Effect of self-focusing of elliptical laser beam on second harmonic generation in collisionless plasma

K Walia - Optik, 2016 - Elsevier
In the present paper, effect of self-focusing of elliptical laser beam on second harmonic
generation is investigated in collisionless plasma by making use of paraxial ray …

Nonlinear interaction of elliptical laser beam with collisional plasma: effect of linear absorption

K Walia, S Kaur - Communications in Theoretical Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
In the present work, nonlinear interaction of elliptical laser beam with collisional plasma is
studied by using paraxial ray approximation. Nonlinear differential equations for the beam …

Thomson parabola spectrometry for gold laser-generated plasmas

L Torrisi, M Cutroneo, L Andò, J Ullschmied - Physics of Plasmas, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The plasma generated from thin gold films irradiated in high vacuum at high intensity (∼ 10
15 W/cm 2) laser shot is characterized in terms of ion generation through time-of-flight …