4 papers
Nonlinear spatiotemporal control of laser intensity
Tanner T. Simpson, Dillon Ramsey, Philip Franke +4
Spatiotemporal control over the intensity of a laser pulse has the potential to enable or revolutionize a wide range of laser-based applications that currently suffer from the poor…
Laser-plasma acceleration beyond wave breaking
J. P. Palastro, B. Malaca, J. Vieira +5
Laser wakefield accelerators rely on the extremely high electric fields of nonlinear plasma waves to trap and accelerate electrons to relativistic energies over short distances. Wh…
Vacuum acceleration of electrons in a dynamic laser pulse
Dillon Ramsey, Philip Franke, Tanner Simpson +2
A planar laser pulse propagating in vacuum can exhibit an extremely large ponderomotive force. This force, however, cannot impart net energy to an electron: As the pulse overtakes…
Stochastic Approximation Monte Carlo with a Dynamic Update Factor
Jordan K. Pommerenck, Tanner T. Simpson, Michael A. Perlin +1
We present a new Monte Carlo algorithm based on the Stochastic Approximation Monte Carlo (SAMC) algorithm for directly calculating the density of states. The proposed method is Sto…