Publications (6)
Weibel-mediated filamentary structures observed in the ICF context
C. Ruyer, S. Bolaños, P. E. Masson Laborde +16
In light of novel and past experimental results, we demonstrate how Weibel-mediated filamentary structures can develop in the expanding plasma plume of a laser-irradiated foil. The…
Experimental mitigation of fast magnetic reconnection in multiple interacting laser-produced plasmas
S. Bolaños, R. Smets, C. Courtois +11
The meeting of astrophysical plasmas and their magnetic fields creates many reconnection sites. We experimentally compare the reconnection rate of laser-driven magnetic reconnectio…
Numerical study of non-gyrotropic electron pressure effects in collisionless magnetic reconnection
A. Sladkov, R. Smets, N. Aunai +1
We investigate the time evolution of the six-component electron pressure tensor in a hybrid code studying consequences for the two-dimensional reconnection process in an initially…
Effect of soil temperature on one-way optical frequency transfer through dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing fibre links
T. J. Pinkert, O. Böll, G. S. M. Jansen +8
Results of optical frequency transfer over a carrier-grade dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing (DWDM) optical fibre network are presented. The relation between soil temperature…
Numerical investigation of spallation neutrons generated from petawatt-scale laser-driven proton beams
B. Martinez, S. N. Chen, S. Bolaños +15
Due to their high cost of acquisition and operation, there are still a limited number of high-yield, high-flux neutron source facilities worldwide. In this context, laser-driven ne…
Laboratory evidence of the halting of magnetic reconnection by a weak guide field
S. Bolanos, R. Smets, S. N. Chen +10
Magnetic reconnection occurs when two plasmas having co-planar but anti-parallel magnetic fields meet. At the contact point, the field is locally annihilated and the magnetic energ…