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Coherent attosecond pulses generated by a relativistic electron beam interacting with an intense laser at a grazing angle
H. Peng, T. W. Huang, C. N. Wu +5
The interaction between relativistic electron beams and intense laser fields has been extensively studied for generating high-energy radiation. However, achieving coherent radiatio…
Stimulated Brillouin Amplification with Flying Focus
Zhaohui Wu, Xiaoming Zeng, Zhaoli Li +8
Material damage thresholds pose a fundamental limit to chirped pulse amplification (CPA) in high-power laser systems. Plasma-based amplification via stimulated Brillouin scattering…
Experimental evidence of stimulated Raman re-scattering in laser-plasma interaction
J. -R. Marquès, F. Pérez, P. Loiseau +5
We present the first experimental evidence of stimulated Raman re-scattering of a laser in plasma: The scattered light produced by the Raman instability is intense enough to scatte…
Strong-field ionization in particle-in-cell simulations
A. A. Mironov, E. G. Gelfer, I. I. Tupitsyn +11
The inclusion of the process of multiple ionization of atoms in high-intensity electromagnetic fields into particle-in-cell (PIC) codes applied to the simulation of laser-plasma in…
Intrinsic femtosecond structure of extreme contrast harmonic pulses: influence on relativistic laser-solid interactions
C. Aparajit, Anandam Choudhary, Ankit Dulat +7
Extreme intensity contrast is considered essential for ultraintense, femtosecond laser excitation of solid targets, in particular for studies with structured or ultra-thin targets.…
Control of autoresonant plasma beat-wave wakefield excitation
M. Luo, C. Riconda, I. Pusztai +3
Autoresonant phase-locking of the plasma wakefield to the beat frequency of two driving lasers offers advantages over conventional wakefield acceleration methods, since it requires…
Multiplicity of electron- and photon-seeded electromagnetic showers at multi-petawatt laser facilities
M. Pouyez, A. A. Mironov, T. Grismayer +5
Electromagnetic showers developing from the collision of an ultra-intense laser pulse with a beam of high-energy electrons or photons are investigated under conditions relevant to…
Photochemically-induced acousto-optics in gases
Pierre Michel, Livia Lancia, Albertine Oudin +6
Acousto-optics consists of launching acoustic waves in a medium (usually a crystal) in order to modulate its refractive index and create a tunable optical grating. In this article,…
Growth rate of self-sustained QED cascades induced by intense lasers
A. Mercuri-Baron, A. A. Mironov, C. Riconda +2
It was suggested [A. R. Bell & J. G. Kirk, PRL 101, 200403 (2008)] that an avalanche of electron-positron pairs can be triggered in the laboratory by a standing wave generated by i…
Coherent subcycle optical shock from superluminal plasma wake
H. Peng, T. W. Huang, K. Jiang +7
We propose a new mechanism for generating coherent subcycle optical pulse by directing a relativistic electron beam (REB) into a plasma with a density up-ramp. The subcycle pulse i…
Generation of subcycle isolated attosecond pulses by pumping ionizing gating
Zhaohui Wu, Hao Peng, Xiaoming Zeng +11
We present a novel approach named as pumping ionizing gating (PIG) for the generation of isolated attosecond pulses (IAPs). In this regime, a short laser is used to ionize a pre-ex…
Stimulated-Raman-scattering amplification of attosecond XUV pulses with pulse-train pumps and application to local in-depth plasma-density measurement
Andréas Sundström, Mickael Grech, István Pusztai +1
We present a scheme for amplifying an extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) seed isolated attosecond pulse via stimulated Raman scattering of a pulse-train pump. At sufficient seed and pump in…
Electron acceleration by laser plasma wedge interaction
S. Marini, P. S. Kleij, M. Grech +2
A new electron acceleration mechanism is identified that develops when a relativistically intense laser irradiates the wedge of an over-dense plasma. This induces a diffracted elec…
Key parameters for surface plasma wave excitation in the ultra-high intensity regime
S. Marini, P. S. Kleij, F. Amiranoff +3
Ultra-short high-power lasers can deliver extreme light intensities ( W/cm and s) and drive large amplitude Surface Plasma Wave (SPW) at over-dense plas…
Impact of the laser spatio-temporal shape on Breit-Wheeler pair production
A. Mercuri-Baron, M. Grech, F. Niel +4
The forthcoming generation of multi-petawatt lasers opens the way to abundant pair production by the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process, i.e., the decay of a photon into an electron-p…
Numerical study of Langmuir wave coalescence in laser-plasma interaction
F. Pérez, F. Amiranoff, C. Briand +7
Type-III-burst radio signals can be mimicked in the laboratory via laser-plasma interaction. Instead of an electron beam generating Langmuir waves (LW) in the interplanetary medium…
Ultrashort high energy electron bunches from tunable surface plasma waves driven with laser wavefront rotation
S. Marini, P. S. Kleij, F. Pisani +5
We propose to use ultra-high intensity laser pulses with wavefront rotation (WFR) to produce short, ultra-intense surface plasma waves (SPW) on grating targets for electron acceler…
A laser-plasma interaction experiment for solar burst studies
J. -R. Marquès, C. Briand, F. Amiranoff +7
A new experimental platform based on laser-plasma interaction is proposed to explore the fundamental processes of wave coupling at the origin of interplanetary radio emissions. It…
Nonlinear dynamics of laser-generated ion-plasma gratings: a unified description
H. Peng, C. Riconda, M. Grech +2
Laser-generated plasma gratings are dynamic optical elements for the manipulation of coherent light at high intensities, beyond the damage threshold of solid-stated based materials…
Momentum Absorption and Magnetic Field Generation by Obliquely Incident Light
Andrea Macchi, Anna Grassi, François Amiranoff +1
The partial reflection of an electromagnetic (EM) wave from a medium leads to absorption of momentum in the direction perpendicular to the surface (the standard radiation pressure)…
Joule-level high effiency energy transfer to sub-picosecond laser pulses by a plasma-based amplifier
J. -R. Marquès, L. Lancia, T. Gangolf +9
Laser plasma amplification of sub-picosecond pulses above the Joule level is demonstrated, a major milestone for this scheme to become a solution for the next-generation of ultra-h…
Extensive study of electron acceleration by relativistic surface plasmons
Giada Cantono, Andrea Sgattoni, Luca Fedeli +5
The excitation of surface plasmons with ultra-intense ( W/cm), high contrast () laser pulses on periodically-modulated solid targets has be…
From quantum to classical modelling of radiation reaction: a focus on the radiation spectrum
F. Niel, C. Riconda, F. Amiranoff +5
Soon available multi petawatt ultra-high-intensity (UHI) lasers will allow us to probe high-amplitude electromagnetic fields interacting with either ultra-relativistic electron bea…
From quantum to classical modelling of radiation reaction: a focus on stochasticity effects
F. Niel, C. Riconda, F. Amiranoff +2
Radiation-reaction in the interaction of ultra-relativistic electrons with a strong external electromagnetic field is investigated using a kinetic approach in the weakly quantum re…