5 papers
Fundamental limit of intensity scaling for harmonic generation on plasma mirrors
Baptiste Groussin, Philipp Sikorski, Aodhan McIlvenny +12
Plasma mirrors have the potential to considerably boost the intensity of ultra-intense laser pulses through high-order harmonic generation, offering a promising route to the extrem…
Radiation damage to normal mammalian tissue in vivo with laser-driven protons at ultra-high instantaneous dose rate
Lieselotte Obst-Huebl, Jamie L. Inman, Jared De Chant +12
The differential sparing of normal tissues relative to tumor control observed at ultra-high dose rates, referred to as the FLASH effect, has recently gained considerable attention.…
A Renewable Double Plasma Mirror For Petawatt-class Lasers
Nick Czapla, Derek M. Nasir, Lieselotte Obst-Huebl +9
Exceptional pulse contrast can be critical for ultraintense laser experiments, particularly when using solid density targets, and their use is becoming widespread. However, current…
Dephasing of ion beams as Magnetic Vortex Acceleration regime transitions into a bubble-like field structure
Sahel Hakimi, Stepan S. Bulanov, Axel Huebl +9
The interaction of an ultra-intense laser pulse with a near critical density target results in the formation of a plasma channel, a strong azimuthal magnetic field and moving vorti…
Design Optimization of Permanent-Magnet Based Compact Transport Systems for Laser-Driven Proton Beams
Jared T. De Chant, Kei Nakamura, Qing Ji +8
Laser-driven (LD) ion acceleration has been explored in a newly constructed short focal length beamline at the BELLA petawatt facility (interaction point 2, iP2). For applications…