4 papers
Optimization of vacuum acceleration with radially polarized laser beams having phase aberrations
Spencer W. Jolly
The strong electric fields from tightly-focused and ultrashort laser beams have always been discussed as a way to accelerate charged particles without any need for a medium or exte…
Programmable Focal Elongation and Shaping of High-Intensity Laser Pulses using Adaptive Optics
P. Blum, A. Puchert, E. Archer +7
Controlling the intensity distribution of laser pulses in the focal region is essential for optimizing optically generated plasma waveguides and enabling advanced plasma accelerati…
Space-time singularities in spatially-chirped Laguerre-Gaussian beams of any order
Spencer W. Jolly
The electric field distributions and space-time singularity curves are computed for ultrashort pulsed Laguerre-Gaussian laser beams having spatial chirp. Due to the breaking of cyl…
Enhanced spatiotemporal optical vortices and vortex chains from Hermite-Gauss modes with a tilted pulse front
Miguel A. Porras, Spencer W. Jolly
Hermite-Gaussian (HG) beams are standard modes delivered by continuous or pulsed lasers systems, and pulse-front tilt is one of the most common, detrimental or beneficial, spatiote…