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Impact of Residual Angular Chirp in a Petawatt-class Laser System on Laser-driven Proton Acceleration
Qingfan Wu, Minjian Wu, Jiarui Zhao +25
Laser-driven proton acceleration has attracted considerable interest owing to its appealing potential in versatile applications including cancer therapy. Proton energies depend cri…
On the generation of attosecond gigawatt soft X-ray pulses through coherent Thomson backscattering
Qianyi Ma, Jiaxin Liu, Zhuo Pan +8
Collision between relativistic electron sheets and counter-propagating laser pulses is recognized as a promising way to produce intense attosecond X-rays through coherent Thomson b…
Extremely powerful and frequency-tunable terahertz pulses from a table-top laser-plasma wiggler
Jie Cai, Yinren Shou, Yixing Geng +6
The production of broadband, terawatt terahertz (THz) pulses has been demonstrated by irradiating relativistic lasers on solid targets. However, the generation of extremely powerfu…
On the generation of ultra-bright and low energy spread electron beams in laser wakefield acceleration in a uniform plasma
Xinlu Xu, Thamine N. Dalichaouch, Jiaxin Liu +5
The quality of electron beams produced from plasma-based accelerators, i.e., normalized brightness and energy spread, has made transformative progress in the past several decades i…
Ultra-compact attosecond X-ray free-electron lasers utilizing unique beams from plasma-based acceleration and an optical undulator
Xinlu Xu, Jiaxin Liu, Thamine Dalichaouch +7
Accelerator-based X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) are the latest addition to the revolutionary tools of discovery for the 21st century. The two major components of an XFEL are a…
Synchronous post-acceleration of laser-driven protons in helical coil targets by controlling the current dispersion
Zhipeng Liu, Zhusong Mei, Defeng Kong +15
Post-acceleration of protons in helical coil targets driven by intense, ultrashort laser pulses can enhance the ion energy by utilizing the transient current originating from the s…
Alpha-particle generation from H-11B fusion initiated by laser-accelerated boron ions
Defeng Kong, Shirui Xu, Yinren Shou +21
Here we report the generation of MeV alpha-particles from H-11B fusion initiated by laser-accelerated boron ions. Boron ions with maximum energy of 6MeV and fluence of 10^9/MeV/sr@…
High-energy-density plasma in femtosecond-laser-irradiated nanowire array targets for nuclear reactions
Defeng Kong, Guoqiang Zhang, Yinren Shou +21
In this work, the high-energy-density plasmas (HEDP) evolved from joule-class-femtosecond-laser-irradiated nanowire array (NWA) targets are numerically and experimentally studied.…
Transmutation prospect of long-lived nuclear waste induced by high-charge electron beam from laser plasma accelerator
X. L. Wang, Z. Y. Xu, W. Luo +3
Photo-transmutation of long-lived nuclear waste induced by high-charge relativistic electron beam (e-beam) from laser plasma accelerator is demonstrated. Collimated relativistic e-…