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20172022
most citedEfficient ion acceleration and dense electron-positron plasma creation in ultra-high intensity laser-solid interactions

50 citations · 126 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

physics.plasm-ph2022

Twisted plasma waves driven by twisted ponderomotive force

Yin Shi, D. R. Blackman, R. J. Kingham +1

We present results of twisted plasma waves driven by twisted ponderomotive force. With beating of two, co-propagating, Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) orbital angular momentum (OAM) laser p…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 1 cited

Electron pulse train accelerated by a linearly polarized Laguerre-Gaussian laser beam

Yin Shi, David R Blackman, Ping Zhu +1

A linearly polarized Laguerre-Gaussian (LP-LG) laser beam with a twist index has field structure that fundamentally differs from the field structure of a conventional line…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 17 cited

Electron Acceleration Using Twisted Laser Wavefronts

Yin Shi, David Blackman, Alexey Arefiev

Using plasma mirror injection we demonstrate, both analytically and numerically, that a circularly polarized helical laser pulse can accelerate highly collimated dense bunches of e…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 41 cited

Generation of ultra-relativistic monoenergetic electron bunches via a synergistic interaction of longitudinal electric and magnetic fields of a twisted laser

Yin Shi, David Blackman, Dan Stutman +1

We use 3D simulations to demonstrate that high-quality ultra-relativistic electron bunches can be generated upon reflection of a twisted laser beam off a plasma mirror. The unique…

physics.plasm-ph2021

Effects of simulation dimensionality on laser-driven electron acceleration and photon emission in hollow micro-channel targets

Tao Wang, David Blackman, Katherine Chin +1

Using two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) kinetic simulations, we examine the impact of simulation dimensionality on the laser-driven electron acceleration and the emis…

physics.plasm-ph2019★ 17 cited

Kinetic plasma waves carrying orbital angular momentum

D. Blackman, R. Nuter, Ph. Korneev +1

The structure of Langmuir plasma waves carrying a finite angular orbital momentum is revised in the paraxial optics approximation. It is shown that the kinetic effects related to h…

physics.plasm-ph2017★ 50 cited

Efficient ion acceleration and dense electron-positron plasma creation in ultra-high intensity laser-solid interactions

D. Del Sorbo, D. R. Blackman, R. Capdessus +9

The radiation pressure of next generation ultra-high intensity ( W/cm) lasers could efficiently accelerate ions to GeV energies. However, nonlinear quantum-electrod…