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20202026
most citedHeating in Multi-Layer Targets at ultra-high Intensity Laser Irradiation and the Impact of Density Oscillation

4 citations · 9 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

physics.plasm-ph2026

XFEL Imaging Techniques for High Energy Density and Inertial Fusion Energy Research at HED-HiBEF

Alejandro Laso Garcia, Mikhail Mishchenko, Victorien Bouffetier +53

The imaging platform developed at the High Energy Density - Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields (HED-HiBEF) instrument at the European XFEL and its applications to…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Microscopy X-ray Imaging enriched with Small Angle X-ray Scattering for few nanometer resolution reveals shock waves and compression in intense short pulse laser irradiation of solids

Thomas Kluge, Arthur Hirsch-Passicos, Jannis Schulz +23

Understanding how laser pulses compress solids into high-energy-density states requires diagnostics that simultaneously resolve macroscopic geometry and nanometer-scale structure.…

physics.optics2025

Probing laser-driven surface and subsurface dynamics via grazing-incidence XFEL scattering and diffraction

Lisa Randolph, Özgül Öztürk, Dmitriy Ksenzov +34

We demonstrate a grazing-incidence x-ray platform that simultaneously records time-resolved grazing-incidence small-angle x-ray scattering (GISAXS) and grazing-incidence x-ray diff…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Probing ultrafast heating and ionization dynamics in solid density plasmas with time-resolved resonant X-ray absorption and emission

Lingen Huang, Mikhail Mishchenko, Michal Šmíd +34

Heating and ionization are among the most fundamental processes in relativistic laser--solid interactions; however, their spatiotemporal evolution remains challenging to capture ex…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 3 cited

Demonstration of full-scale spatio-temporal diagnostics of solid-density plasmas driven by an ultra-short relativistic laser pulse using an X-ray free-electron laser

Lingen Huang, Michal Šmíd, Long Yang +42

Understanding the complex plasma dynamics in ultra-intense relativistic laser-solid interactions is of fundamental importance to the applications of laser plasma-based particle acc…

physics.plasm-ph2024

(Sub-)picosecond surface correlations of femtosecond laser excited Al-coated multilayers observed by grazing-incidence x-ray scattering

Lisa Randolph, Mohammadreza Banjafar, Toshinori Yabuuchi +22

Femtosecond high-intensity laser pulses at intensities surpassing can generate a diverse range of functional surface nanostructures. Achieving prec…

physics.plasm-ph2024

The importance of temperature-dependent collision frequency in PIC simulation on nanometric density evolution of highly-collisional strongly-coupled dense plasmas

Mohammadreza Banjafar, Lisa Randolph, Lingen Huang +17

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) method is a powerful plasma simulation tool for investigating high-intensity femtosecond laser-matter interaction. However, its simulation capability at high…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Cylindrical compression of thin wires by irradiation with a Joule-class short pulse laser

Alejandro Laso Garcia, Long Yang, Victorien Bouffetier +14

Equation of state measurements at Jovian or stellar conditions are currently conducted by dynamic shock compression driven by multi-kilojoule multi-beam nanosecond-duration lasers.…

physics.plasm-ph2023

Dynamic convergent shock compression initiated by return current in high-intensity laser solid interactions

Long Yang, Martin Rehwald, Thomas Kluge +6

We investigate the dynamics of convergent shock compression in the solid wire targets irradiated by an ultra-fast relativistic laser pulse. Our Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations a…

physics.plasm-ph2023

Time-resolved optical shadowgraphy of solid hydrogen jets as a testbed to benchmark particle-in-cell simulations

Long Yang, Lingen Huang, Stefan Assenbaum +11

Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations are a superior tool to model kinetics-dominated plasmas in relativistic and ultrarelativistic laser-solid interactions (dimensionless vectorpoten…

physics.plasm-ph2023

Visualizing Plasmons and Ultrafast Kinetic Instabilities in Laser-Driven Solids using X-ray Scattering

Paweł Ordyna, Carsten Bähtz, Erik Brambrink +27

Ultra-intense lasers that ionize and accelerate electrons in solids to near the speed of light can lead to kinetic instabilities that alter the laser absorption and subsequent elec…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 2 cited

Probing the dynamics of solid density micro-wire targets after ultra-intense laser irradiation using a free-electron laser

Thomas Kluge, Michael Bussmann, Eric Galtier +22

In this paper, we present an experiment that explores the plasma dynamics of a 7 micron diameter carbon wire after being irradiated with a near-relativistic-intensity short pulse l…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 4 cited

Heating in Multi-Layer Targets at ultra-high Intensity Laser Irradiation and the Impact of Density Oscillation

Franziska-Luise Paschke-Bruehl, Mohammad Banjafar, Marco Garten +7

We present a computational study of isochoric heating in multi-layered targets at ultra-high intensity laser irradiation (approx. 10**20 W/cm**2). Previous studies have shown enhan…

physics.plasm-ph2020

Probing ultrafast laser plasma processes inside solids with resonant small-angle X-ray scattering

Lennart Gaus, Lothar Bischoff, Michael Bussmann +33

Extreme states of matter exist throughout the universe e.g. inside planetary cores, stars or astrophysical jets. Such conditions are generated in the laboratory in the interaction…

physics.plasm-ph2020

Nanoscale subsurface dynamics of solids upon high-intensity laser irradiation observed by femtosecond grazing-incidence x-ray scattering

Lisa Randolph, Mohammadreza Banjafar, Thomas R. Preston +28

Observing ultrafast laser-induced structural changes in nanoscale systems is essential for understanding the dynamics of intense light-matter interactions. For laser intensities on…