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Light-Matter Interaction Near the Schwinger Limit Using Tightly Focused Doppler-Boosted Lasers
Neïl Zaïm, Antonin Sainte-Marie, Luca Fedeli +4
The Schwinger limit could be approached by focusing to its diffraction limit the light reflected by a plasma mirror irradiated by a multi-petawatt laser. We explore numerically the…
PICSAR-QED: a Monte Carlo module to simulate Strong-Field Quantum Electrodynamics in Particle-In-Cell codes for exascale architectures
Luca Fedeli, Neïl Zaïm, Antonin Sainte-Marie +5
Physical scenarios where the electromagnetic fields are so strong that Quantum ElectroDynamics (QED) plays a substantial role are one of the frontiers of contemporary plasma physic…
Sub-laser-cycle control of relativistic plasma mirrors
Ludovic Chopineau, Guillaume Blaclard, Adrien Denoeud +2
We present measurements of high-order harmonics and relativistic electrons emitted into the vacuum from a plasma mirror driven by temporally-shaped ultra-intense laser waveforms, p…
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…
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…
Identification of coupling mechanisms between ultraintense laser light and dense plasmas
L. Chopineau, A. Leblanc, G. Blaclard +7
The interaction of intense laser beams with plasmas created on solid targets involves a rich non-linear physics. Because such dense plasmas are reflective for laser light, the coup…
On the physics of electron ejection from laser-irradiated overdense plasmas
Maxence Thévenet, Henri Vincenti, Jérôme Faure
Using 1D and 2D PIC simulations, we describe and model the backward ejection of electron bunches when a laser pulse reflects off an overdense plasma with a sharp density gradient o…
Vacuum laser acceleration of relativistic electrons using plasma mirror injectors
M. Thévenet, A. Leblanc, S. Kahaly +4
Accelerating particles to relativistic energies over very short distances using lasers has been a long standing goal in physics. Among the various schemes proposed for electrons, v…
Optical Properties of Relativistic Plasma Mirrors
H. Vincenti, S. Monchocé, S. Kahaly +2
The advent of ultrahigh-power femtosecond lasers creates a need for optical components suitable to handle ultrahigh light intensities. Due to the unavoidable laser-induced ionizati…