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Control of energy spectra and enhancement of energy conversion of fast electrons generated by dual-color picosecond lasers
Tie-Huai Zhang, Wei-Min Wang, Yu-Tong Li +1
After the successful fusion ignition at National Ignition Facility, seeking for a high-gain fusion scheme becomes the next hot-spot in inertial confinement fusion community. Fast i…
Far-field model of two-color laser driven terahertz radiation including field element interference and plasma response
Nan Li, Wei-Min Wang
The two-color laser field scheme for broad-band terahertz (THz) radiation from air has been intensively and broadly investigated due to the simplicity in technology and relative hi…
Steady regime of radiation pressure acceleration with foil thickness adjustable within micrometers under 10-100 PW laser
Meng Liu, Wei-Min Wang, Yu-Tong Li
Quasi-monoenergetic GeV-scale protons are predicted to efficiently generate via radiation pressure acceleration (RPA) when the foil thickness is matched with the laser intensity, e…
Dense Polarized Positrons from Laser-Irradiated Foil Targets in the QED Regime
Huai-Hang Song, Wei-Min Wang, Yu-Tong Li
Dense positrons are shown to be effectively generated from laser-solid interactions in the strong-field quantum electrodynamics (QED) regime. Whether these positrons are polarized…
Generation of quasi-monoenergetic proton beams via quantum radiative compression
Feng Wan, Wei-Quan Wang, Qian Zhao +9
Dense high-energy monoenergetic proton beams are vital for wide applications, thus modern laser-plasma-based ion acceleration methods are aiming to obtain high-energy proton beams…
YUNIC: A Multi-Dimensional Particle-In-Cell Code for Laser-Plasma Interaction
Huai-Hang Song, Wei-Min Wang, Yu-Tong Li
For simulating laser-plasma interactions, we developed a parallel, multi-dimensional, fully relativistically particle-in-cell (PIC) code, named YUNIC. The core algorithm is introdu…
Generation of polarized positron beams via collisions of ultrarelativistic electron beams
Huai-Hang Song, Wei-Min Wang, Yu-Tong Li
A novel scheme is proposed for generating a polarized positron beam via multiphoton Breit-Wheeler process during the collision of a 10 GeV, pC seeding electron beam with the other…
Spin and polarization effects on the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in laser-plasma interaction
Huai-Hang Song, Wei-Min Wang, Yan-Fei Li +5
The spin effect of electrons/positrons (/) and polarization effect of photons are investigated in the interaction of two counter-propagating linearly polarized 10-PW-…
Low-frequency whistler waves excited by relativistic laser pulses
Huai-Hang Song, Wei-Min Wang, Jia-Qi Wang +2
It is shown by multi-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations that intense secondary whistler waves with special vortex-like field topology can be excited by a relativistic laser p…
Quantum-stochasticity-induced asymmetry in angular distribution of electrons in a quasi-classical regime
Guang Hu, Wei-Qiang Sun, Bing-Jun Li +5
Impacts of quantum stochasticity on the dynamics of an ultra-relativistic electron beam head-on colliding with a linearly polarized ultra-intense laser pulse are theoretically inve…
Generation of highly-polarized high-energy brilliant -rays via laser-plasma interaction
Kun Xue, Zhen-Ke Dou, Feng Wan +7
Generation of highly-polarized high-energy brilliant -rays via laser-plasma interaction has been investigated in the quantum radiation-reaction regime. We employ a quantum-elect…
Production of Highly Polarized Positron Beams via Helicity Transfer from Polarized Electrons in a Strong Laser Field
Yan-Fei Li, Yue-Yue Chen, Wei-Min Wang +1
The production of a highly-polarized positron beam via nonlinear Breit-Wheeler processes during the interaction of an ultraintense circularly polarized laser pulse with a longitudi…
Guided propagation of extremely intense lasers in plasma via ion motion
Wei-Min Wang, Zheng-Ming Sheng, Thomas Wilson +2
The upcoming petawatt laser facilities may deliver laser pulses with unprecedented intensity of , which can trigger various nonlinear quantum…
Optical Control of transverse Motion of Ionization injected Electrons in Laser Plasma Wakefield
Jie Feng, Yifei Li, Jinguang Wang +7
We demonstrate an all-optical method for controlling the transverse motion of ionization injected electron beam, by utilizing the transversely asymmetrical wakefield via adjusting…
Spin-polarization effects of an ultrarelativistic electron beam in an ultraintense two-color laser pulse
Huai-Hang Song, Wei-Min Wang, Jian-Xing Li +2
Spin-polarization effects of an ultrarelativistic electron beam head-on colliding with an ultraintense two-color laser pulse are investigated comprehensively in the quantum radiati…
Observation of Strong Terahertz Radiation from a Liquid Water Line
L. -L. Zhang, W. -M. Wang, T. Wu +7
Terahertz radiation generation from liquid water has long been considered to be impossible due to strong absorption. A few very recent works reported terahertz generation from wate…
THz pulses over 50 millijoules generated from relativistic picosecond laser-plasma interactions
Guoqian Liao, Hao Liu, Yutong Li +15
Ultrahigh-power terahertz (THz) radiation sources are essential for many applications, such as nonlinear THz physics, THz-wave based compact accelerators, etc. However, until now n…
Observation of Terahertz Radiation via the Two-Color Laser Scheme with Uncommon Frequency Ratios
L. -L. Zhang, W. -M. Wang, D. Wu +6
In the widely-studied two-color laser scheme for terahertz (THz) radiation from a gas, the frequency ratio of the two lasers is usually fixed at 1:2. We investigate THz g…
Collimated Ultra-Bright Gamma-Rays from a PW-Laser-Driven Wire Wiggler
W. -M. Wang, Z. -M. Sheng, P. Gibbon +3
It is shown by three-dimensional QED particle-in-cell simulation that as a laser pulse of 2.5 PW and 20 fs propagates along a sub-wavelength-wide solid wire, directional synchrotro…
Modeling of photon and pair production due to quantum electrodynamics effects in particle-in-cell simulation
W. -M. Wang, Z. -M. Sheng, P. Gibbon +1
We develop the particle-in-cell (PIC) code KLAPS to include the photon generation via the Compton scattering and electron-positron creation via the Breit-Wheeler process due to qua…
600-T Magnetic Fields due to Cold Electron Flow in a simple Cu-Coil irradiated by High Power Laser pulses
Baojun Zhu, Yutong Li, Dawei Yuan +16
A new simple mechanism due to cold electron flow to produce strong magnetic field is proposed. A 600-T strong magnetic field is generated in the free space at the laser intensity o…
Tunable Circularly Polarized Terahertz Radiation from Magnetized Gas Plasma
W. -M. Wang, P. Gibbon, Z. -M. Sheng +1
It is shown, by simulation and theory, that circularly or elliptically polarized terahertz radiation can be generated when a static magnetic (B) field is imposed on a gas target al…
Integrated simulation approach for laser-driven fast ignition
W. -M. Wang, P. Gibbon, Z. -M. Sheng +1
An integrated simulation approach fully based upon particle-in-cell (PIC) model is proposed, which involves both fast particle generation via laser solid-density plasma interaction…
Laser Ion Acceleration Toward Future Ion Beam Cancer Therapy - Numerical Simulation Sudy-
Shigeo Kawata, Takeshi Izumiyama, Toshihiro Nagashima +7
Ion beam has been used in cancer treatment, and has a unique preferable feature to deposit its main energy inside a human body so that cancer cell could be killed by the ion beam.…