8 papers
Porting WarpX to GPU-accelerated platforms
A. Myers, A. Almgren, L. D. Amorim +20
WarpX is a general purpose electromagnetic particle-in-cell code that was originally designed to run on many-core CPU architectures. We describe the strategy followed to allow Warp…
Plasma mirrors as a path to the Schwinger limit
L. Chopineau, A. Denoeud, A. Leblanc +4
Reaching light intensities above W/cm and up to the Schwinger limit ( W/cm) would enable testing decades-old fundamental predictions of Quantum Elect…
Interaction of ultraintense radially-polarized laser pulses with plasma mirrors
N. Zaïm, D. Guénot, L. Chopineau +5
We present experimental results of vacuum laser acceleration (VLA) of electrons using radially polarized laser pulses interacting with a plasma mirror. Tightly focused radially pol…
How to generate intense isolated attosecond pulses from relativistic plasma mirrors?
H. Kallala, F. Quéré, H. Vincenti
Doppler harmonic generation of a high-power laser on a relativistic plasma mirror is a promising path to produce bright attosecond light bursts. Yet, a major challenge has been to…
A generalized massively parallel ultra-high order FFT-based Maxwell solver
Haithem Kallala, Jean-Luc Vay, Henri Vincenti
Dispersion-free ultra-high order FFT-based Maxwell solvers have recently proven to be paramount to a large range of applications, including the high-fidelity modeling of high-inten…
Achieving extreme light intensities using relativistic plasma mirrors
Henri Vincenti
In this letter, cutting-edge 3D Particle-In-Cell simulations are used to demonstrate that so-called relativistic plasma mirrors irradiated by PetaWatt (PW) lasers and naturally cur…