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Enhanced electron injection for efficient proton acceleration and neutron production in femtosecond laser-driven nano-structured targets
Yingzi Dai, Chengyu Qin, Hui Zhang +22
Micro- or nano-structured targets are advantageous in enhancing and manipulating laser-proton acceleration, due to the increased absorption of laser energy and onset of direct lase…
Collimated Hard X-Rays from Hybrid Laser and Plasma Wakefield Accelerators
Hong Zhang, Jianmeng Wei, Mengyuan Chu +21
We report a synergistic enhancement of betatron radiation based on the hybrid laser and plasma wakefield acceleration scheme. Quasi-phase-stable acceleration in an up-ramp plasma d…
Enhanced Proton Acceleration via Petawatt Laguerre-Gaussian Lasers
Wenpeng Wang, Xinyue Sun, Fengyu Sun +13
High-energy, high-flux collimated proton beams with high repetition rates are critical for applications such as proton therapy, proton radiography, high-energy-density matter gener…
Isolated Attosecond -Ray Pulse Generation with Transverse Orbital Angular Momentum Using Intense Spatiotemporal Optical Vortex Lasers
Fengyu Sun, Xinyu Xie, Wenpeng Wang +5
An isolated attosecond vortex -ray pulse is generated by using a relativistic spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV) laser in particle-in-cell simulations. A 300-attosecond…
First Proof of Principle Experiment for Muon Production with Ultrashort High Intensity Laser
Feng Zhang, Li Deng, Yanjie Ge +26
Muons, which play a crucial role in both fundamental and applied physics, have traditionally been generated through proton accelerators or from cosmic rays. With the advent of ultr…
Broadband Dispersive-Wave Emission Coupled with Two-Stage Soliton Self-Compression in Gas-Filled Anti-Resonant Hollow-Core Fibers
Jinyu Pan, Zhiyuan Huang, Yifei Chen +9
We studied the underlying mechanism of broadband dispersive-wave emission within a resonance band of gas-filled anti-resonant hollow-core fiber. Both theoretical and experimental r…
A novel small-scale self-focusing suppression method for ultrahigh peak power lasers
Shuren Pan, Fenxiang Wu, Yang Zhao +6
We proposed a novel method, using an asymmetric four grating compressor (AFGC) to improve the spatial uniformity of laser beams, to suppress the small-scale self-focusing (SSSF) du…
Spectroscopic Evidence for Interfacial Charge Separation and Recombination in Graphene-MoS2 Vertical Heterostructures
Yuqing Zou, Zeyu Zhang, Chunwei Wang +11
Vertical van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures consisting of graphene (Gr) and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have created a fascinating platform for exploring optical and…
Highly-stable, flexible delivery of microjoule-level ultrafast pulses in vacuumized anti-resonant hollow-core fibers for active synchronization
Chuanchuan Yan, Hongyang Li, Zhiyuan Huang +13
We demonstrate the stable and flexible light delivery of multi-μJ, sub-200-fs pulses over a ~10-m-long vacuumized anti-resonant hollow-core fiber (AR-HCF), which was successfully u…
Self-referencing 3D characterization of ultrafast optical-vortex beams using tilted interference TERMITES technique
Jinyu Pan, Yifei Chen, Zhiyuan Huang +6
Femtosecond light pulses carrying optical angular momentums (OAMs), possessing intriguing properties of helical phase fronts and ultrafast temporal profiles, enable many applicatio…
Measurements of microjoule-level, few-femtosecond ultraviolet dispersive-wave pulses generated in gas-filled hollow capillary fibers
Cheng Zhang, Tiandao Chen, Jinyu Pan +11
High-energy ultraviolet pulse generation in gas-filled hollow capillary fibers (HCFs) through dispersive-wave-emission process, has attracted considerable attentions in recent seve…
High-quality femtosecond laser surface micro/nano-structuring assisted by a thin frost layer
Wenhai Gao, Kai Zheng, Yang Liao +9
Femtosecond laser ablation has been demonstrated to be a versatile tool to produce micro/nanoscale features with high precision and accuracy. However, the use of high laser fluence…
High-order harmonic generation in X-ray range from laser induced noble gas multivalent ions
Jixing Gao, Yinghui Zheng, Jiaqi Wu +7
Sub-femtosecond x-ray burst is powerful tool for probing and imaging electronic and concomitant atomic motion in attosecond physics. For years, x-ray source (above 2 keV) had mainl…
Intense harmonics with time-varying orbital angular momentum from relativistic plasma mirrors
Jingwei Wang, Matt Zepf, Yuxin Leng +2
In this work using three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations and analytical considerations we demonstrate intense high-order plasma surface harmonics carrying a time-varying o…
Disorder-assisted Robustness of Ultrafast Cooling in High Doped CVD-Graphene
Tingyuan Jia, Wenjie Zhang, Zijun Zhan +4
Dirac Fermion, which is the low energy collective excitation near the Dirac cone in monolayer graphene, have gained great attention by low energy Terahertz probe. In the case of un…
Photoionization-induced broadband dispersive wave generated in an Ar-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber
Jianhua Fu, Yifei Chen, Zhiyuan Huang +7
The resonance band in hollow-core photonic crystal fiber (HC-PCF), while leading to high-loss region in the fiber transmission spectrum, has been successfully used for generating p…
Single-scan, dual-functional interferometer for fast spatiotemporal characterization of few-cycle pulses
Yifei Chen, Zhiyuan Huang, Ding Wang +5
Accurate and fast characterization of spatiotemporal information of high-intensity, ultrashort pulses is crucial in the field of strong-field laser science and technology. While co…
Stable intense 1 kHz supercontinuum light generation in air
Yaoxiang Liu, Tie-Jun Wang, Hao Guo +7
Supercontinuum (SC) light source has advanced ultrafast laser spectroscopy in condensed matter science, biology, physics, and chemistry. Compared to the frequently used photonic cr…
In-house beam-splitting pulse compressor with compensated spatiotemporal coupling for high-energy petawatt lasers
Jun Liu, Xiong Shen, Zhe Si +5
One of the most serious bottleneck on achieving kilojoule-level high-energy petawatt (PW) to hundreds-petawatt (100PW) lasers with ps to fs pulse duration is the requirement of as…
Photoionization-assisted, high-efficiency emission of dispersive wave in gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibers
Yifei Chen, Zhiyuan Huang, Fei Yu +6
We demonstrate that the phase-matched dispersive wave (DW) emission within the resonance band of a 25-cm-long gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber (HC-PCF) can be strongly…
2.6mJ/100Hz CEP stable near-single-cycle 4μm laser based on OPCPA and hollow-core-fiber compression
Pengfei Wang, Yanyan Li, Wenkai Li +10
A carrier envelope phase stable near-single cycle mid-infrared laser based on optical parametric chirped pulse amplification and hollow-core-fiber compression is demonstrated. 4 μm…
Enhanced betatron radiation by steering a low-energy-spread electron beam in a deflected laser-driven plasma wiggler
Changhai Yu, Jiansheng Liu, Wentao Wang +14
Laser wakefield accelerators (LWFA) hold great potential to produce high-quality high-energy electron beams (e beams) and simultaneously bright x-ray sources via betatron radiation…
MeV Argon ion beam generation with narrow energy spread
Jiancai Xu, Tongjun Xu, Baifei Shen +11
Laser driven particle acceleration has shown remarkable progresses in generating multi-GeV electron bunches and 10s of MeV ion beams based on high-power laser facilities. Intense l…