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physics.plasm-ph2023

Control of energy spectra and enhancement of energy conversion of fast electrons generated by dual-color picosecond lasers

Tie-Huai Zhang, Wei-Min Wang, Yu-Tong Li +1

After the successful fusion ignition at National Ignition Facility, seeking for a high-gain fusion scheme becomes the next hot-spot in inertial confinement fusion community. Fast i…

physics.plasm-ph2023

Steady regime of radiation pressure acceleration with foil thickness adjustable within micrometers under 10-100 PW laser

Meng Liu, Wei-Min Wang, Yu-Tong Li

Quasi-monoenergetic GeV-scale protons are predicted to efficiently generate via radiation pressure acceleration (RPA) when the foil thickness is matched with the laser intensity, e…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 41 cited

Dense Polarized Positrons from Laser-Irradiated Foil Targets in the QED Regime

Huai-Hang Song, Wei-Min Wang, Yu-Tong Li

Dense positrons are shown to be effectively generated from laser-solid interactions in the strong-field quantum electrodynamics (QED) regime. Whether these positrons are polarized…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 2 cited

YUNIC: A Multi-Dimensional Particle-In-Cell Code for Laser-Plasma Interaction

Huai-Hang Song, Wei-Min Wang, Yu-Tong Li

For simulating laser-plasma interactions, we developed a parallel, multi-dimensional, fully relativistically particle-in-cell (PIC) code, named YUNIC. The core algorithm is introdu…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 20 cited

Spin and polarization effects on the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in laser-plasma interaction

Huai-Hang Song, Wei-Min Wang, Yan-Fei Li +5

The spin effect of electrons/positrons (/) and polarization effect of photons are investigated in the interaction of two counter-propagating linearly polarized 10-PW-…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 6 cited

Low-frequency whistler waves excited by relativistic laser pulses

Huai-Hang Song, Wei-Min Wang, Jia-Qi Wang +2

It is shown by multi-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations that intense secondary whistler waves with special vortex-like field topology can be excited by a relativistic laser p…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 10 cited

Quantum-stochasticity-induced asymmetry in angular distribution of electrons in a quasi-classical regime

Guang Hu, Wei-Qiang Sun, Bing-Jun Li +5

Impacts of quantum stochasticity on the dynamics of an ultra-relativistic electron beam head-on colliding with a linearly polarized ultra-intense laser pulse are theoretically inve…

physics.plasm-ph2019★ 4 cited

Guided propagation of extremely intense lasers in plasma via ion motion

Wei-Min Wang, Zheng-Ming Sheng, Thomas Wilson +2

The upcoming petawatt laser facilities may deliver laser pulses with unprecedented intensity of , which can trigger various nonlinear quantum…

physics.plasm-ph2019★ 42 cited

Spin-polarization effects of an ultrarelativistic electron beam in an ultraintense two-color laser pulse

Huai-Hang Song, Wei-Min Wang, Jian-Xing Li +2

Spin-polarization effects of an ultrarelativistic electron beam head-on colliding with an ultraintense two-color laser pulse are investigated comprehensively in the quantum radiati…

physics.plasm-ph2017★ 52 cited

Collimated Ultra-Bright Gamma-Rays from a PW-Laser-Driven Wire Wiggler

W. -M. Wang, Z. -M. Sheng, P. Gibbon +3

It is shown by three-dimensional QED particle-in-cell simulation that as a laser pulse of 2.5 PW and 20 fs propagates along a sub-wavelength-wide solid wire, directional synchrotro…

physics.plasm-ph2014★ 3 cited

Intense isolated few-cycle attosecond XUV pulses from overdense plasmas driven by tailored laser pulses

Zi-Yu Chen, Xiao-Ya Li, Li-Ming Chen +2

A method to generate an intense isolated few-cycle attosecond XUV pulse is demonstrated using particle-in-cell simulations. When a tailored laser pulse with a sharp edge irradiates…

physics.plasm-ph2012★ 123 cited

Plasmoid ejection and secondary current sheet generation from magnetic reconnection in laser-plasma interaction

Quan-Li Dong, Shou-Jun Wang, Quan-Ming Lu +21

Reconnection of the self-generated magnetic fields in laser-plasma interaction was first investigated experimentally by Nilson {\it et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 255001 (2006)] by…

physics.plasm-ph2009★ 71 cited

Intense high contrast femtosecond K-shell x-ray source from laser-driven Ar clusters

L. M. Chen, F. Liu, W. M. Wang +9

Bright Ar K-shell x-ray with very little background has been generated using an Ar clustering gas jet target irradiated with an 800 mJ, 30 fs ultra-high contrast laser, with the me…