FLASH radiotherapy with photon beams

P Montay‐Gruel, S Corde, JA Laissue… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ultra‐high‐dose rate “FLASH” radiotherapy (FLASH‐RT) has been shown to drastically
reduce normal tissue toxicities while being as efficacious as conventional dose rate …

1.1 J Yb: YAG picosecond laser at 1 kHz repetition rate

Y Wang, H Chi, C Baumgarten, K Dehne… - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate the generation of 1.1 J pulses of picosecond duration at 1 kHz repetition
rate (1.1 kW average power) from a diode-pumped chirped pulse amplification Yb: YAG …

Recent development of high-energy short-pulse lasers with cryogenically cooled Yb: YAG

Y Sui, M Yuan, Z Bai, Z Fan - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
High-power solid-state lasers are among the hot research directions at the forefront of laser
research and have major applications in industrial processing, laser-confined nuclear …

Extreme ionization of heavy atoms in solid-density plasmas by relativistic second-harmonic laser pulses

R Hollinger, S Wang, Y Wang, A Moreau… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Strip** heavy atoms in solid matter of most of their electrons requires the extreme
conditions that exist in astrophysical plasmas, but are difficult to create in the laboratory …

Realizing attosecond core-level X-ray spectroscopy for the investigation of condensed matter systems

AM Summers, S Severino, M Reduzzi… - Ultrafast …, 2023 - spj.science.org
Unraveling the exact nature of nonequilibrium and correlated interactions is paramount for
continued progress in many areas of condensed matter science. Such insight is a …

Ion acceleration from microstructured targets irradiated by high-intensity picosecond laser pulses

M Bailly-Grandvaux, D Kawahito, C Mcguffey… - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
Structures on the front surface of thin foil targets for laser-driven ion acceleration have been
proposed to increase the ion source maximum energy and conversion efficiency. While …

[HTML][HTML] High-energy-density plasma in femtosecond-laser-irradiated nanowire-array targets for nuclear reactions

D Kong, G Zhang, Y Shou, S Xu, Z Mei, Z Cao… - Matter and Radiation …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, the high-energy-density plasmas (HEDP) evolved from joule-class-femtosecond-
laser-irradiated nanowire-array (NWA) targets were numerically and experimentally studied …

Ion acceleration and DD fusion neutron generation in relativistically transparent deuterated nanowire arrays

A Curtis, R Hollinger, C Calvi, S Wang, S Huanyu… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Laser irradiation of deuterated polyethylene nanowire arrays at intensities of 5× 10 19 W cm–
2 was recently reported to accelerate deuterons to multi-MeV energies, resulting in …

High-flux bright x-ray source from femtosecond laser-irradiated microtapes

X Shen, A Pukhov, B Qiao - Communications Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Betatron x-ray sources from laser-plasma interaction are characterized by compactness,
ultrashort duration, broadband spectrum and micron source size. However, high-quality …

Enhanced electron acceleration in aligned nanowire arrays irradiated at highly relativistic intensities

A Moreau, R Hollinger, C Calvi, S Wang… - Plasma Physics and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a significant enhancement in both the energy and the flux of relativistic electrons
accelerated by ultra-intense laser pulse irradiation (> 1× 10 21 W cm− 2) of near solid …