Recent advances in laser technology have pushed the frontier of maximum intensity
achieved to about 1022W/cm2 and investigators currently believe even higher intensities …

Femtosecond laser pulses have proven to provide valuable insight into the dynamics of
microscopic systems by using pump–probe techniques. Applied to atomic clusters even a …

Cluster temperature is an important material parameter essential to many physical and
chemical processes involving clusters and cluster beams. Because of the diverse methods …

The kinetic energy of hot (multi-keV) ions from the laser-driven Coulomb explosion of
deuterium clusters and the resulting fusion yield in plasmas formed from these exploding …

In this work, we present a new and general method for measuring the astrophysical S factor
of nuclear reactions in laser-induced plasmas and we apply it to H 2 (d, n) He 3. The …

We report on measurements of ion energy distributions from hydrogen clusters irradiated by
intense laser pulses of duration 40 and 250 fs. Contrary to the predictions of a simple …

We demonstrate experimentally the efficient fusion neutron generation from Coulomb
explosion (CE) of laser irradiated large-size heteronuclear deuterated methane clusters. A …

Neutron-producing experiments have been carried out on the Prague Asterix Laser System.
At the fundamental wavelength of 1.315 μm, the laser pulse of a 600 J energy and 300 ps …

Fast processes of cluster excitation under the action of an ultrashort superpower laser pulse
or as a result of cluster collisions are considered. Processes are studied for cluster …

The collisionless expansion of spherical plasmas composed of cold ions and hot electrons is
analyzed using a novel kinetic model, with special emphasis on the influence of the electron …