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Continuous Laser-Driven α Source
Noam Popper, Griffin D. Glenn, Girik Jain +7
Laser-driven proton-boron fusion offers a path for generation of particles on a compact scale. Conventional solid-target experiments, however, are fundamentally limited by targ…
Spatio-Temporal Synchronization of Counter-Propagating Femtosecond Pulses
Tamir Cohen, Moshe Fraenkel, Ishay Pomerantz
Generating intense x-ray radiation via inverse-Compton scattering and exploring the strong-field regime of QED, require precise spatio-temporal synchronization of tightly focused c…
Robust direct laser acceleration of electrons with flying-focus laser pulses
Talia Meir, Kale Weichman, Alexey Arefiev +2
Direct laser acceleration (DLA) offers a compact source of high-charge, energetic electrons for generating secondary radiation or neutrons. While DLA in high-density plasma optimiz…
Characterization and performance of the Apollon main short-pulse laser beam following its commissioning at 2 PW level
Weipeng Yao, Ronan Lelièvre, Itamar Cohen +43
We present the results of the second commissioning phase of the short-focal-length area of the Apollon laser facility (located in Saclay, France), which was performed with the main…
Collimated -ray emission enabled by efficient direct laser acceleration
Kavin Tangtartharakul, Gaetan Fauvel, Talia Meir +5
We investigate the mechanisms responsible for single-lobed versus double-lobed angular distributions of emitted -rays in laser-irradiated plasmas, focusing on how direct laser a…
Ion acceleration from micrometric targets immersed in an intense laser field
Michal Elkind, Noam Popper, Itamar Cohen +4
We report on an experimental study of proton acceleration by intense laser irradiation of micrometric bar targets, whose dimensions are transversely immersed in the laser focal vol…
On a formal equivalence between electro-magnetic waves in cold plasma and shallow water inertio-gravity waves
Eyal Heifetz, Leo R. M. Maas, Julian Mak +1
The fundamental dispersion relation of transverse electro-magnetic waves in a cold collisionless plasma is formally equivalent to the two dimensional dispersion relation of inertio…
Non-Maxwellian electron distributions resulting from direct laser acceleration in near-critical plasmas
T. Toncian, C. Wang, E. McCary +17
The irradiation of few nm thick targets by a finite-contrast high-intensity short-pulse laser results in a strong pre-expansion of these targets at the arrival time of the main pul…
Enhanced Proton Acceleration by an Ultrashort Laser Interaction with Structured Dynamic Plasma Targets
A. Zigler, S. Eisenman, M. Botton +14
We experimentally demonstrate a notably enhanced acceleration of protons to high energy by relatively modest ultrashort laser pulses and structured dynamical plasma targets. Realiz…