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View article: A renewable double plasma mirror for Petawatt-class lasers
A renewable double plasma mirror for Petawatt-class lasers Open
Exceptional pulse contrast can be critical for ultraintense laser experiments, particularly when using solid density targets, and their use is becoming widespread. However, current plasma mirror technology is becoming inadequate for the ne…
View article: A Renewable Double Plasma Mirror For Petawatt-class Lasers
A Renewable Double Plasma Mirror For Petawatt-class Lasers Open
Exceptional pulse contrast can be critical for ultraintense laser experiments, particularly when using solid density targets, and their use is becoming widespread. However, current plasma mirror technology is becoming inadequate for the ne…
View article: Remote detection of radioactive material using a short pulse CO2 laser
Remote detection of radioactive material using a short pulse CO2 laser Open
Detection of radioactive material at distances greater than the radiated particle range is an important goal with applications in areas such as national defense and disaster response. Here we demonstrate avalanche-breakdown-based remote de…
View article: Control of intense light with avalanche-ionization plasma gratings
Control of intense light with avalanche-ionization plasma gratings Open
High-peak-power lasers are fundamental to high-field science: increased laser intensity has enabled laboratory astrophysics, relativistic plasma physics, and compact laser-based particle accelerators. However, the meter-scale optics requir…
View article: Atmospheric effects on the laser-driven avalanche-based remote detection of radiation
Atmospheric effects on the laser-driven avalanche-based remote detection of radiation Open
The effect of realistic atmospheric conditions on mid-IR (λ = 3.9 µm) and long-wave-IR (λ = 10 µm) laser-induced avalanche breakdown for the remote detection of radioactive material is examined experimentally and with propagation simulatio…
View article: Remote Detection of Radioactive Materials Using Long Wavelength Infrared Laser Driven Avalanche Breakdown [Slides]
Remote Detection of Radioactive Materials Using Long Wavelength Infrared Laser Driven Avalanche Breakdown [Slides] Open
The yearly goals of the "Remote Detection of Radioactive Materials Using Long Wavelength Infrared Laser Driven Avalanche Breakdown" experiment are broken into two parts. Year 1: Perform proof-of-concept scaling experiments for detection of…
View article: Emittance preserving thin film plasma mirrors for GeV scale laser plasma accelerators
Emittance preserving thin film plasma mirrors for GeV scale laser plasma accelerators Open
Laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) now routinely produce electron beams with GeV energies over acceleration lengths on the order of a few centimeters. This capability and the demonstration of multistage coupling make LPAs promising for numer…
View article: A compact, high resolution energy, and emittance diagnostic for electron beams using active plasma lenses
A compact, high resolution energy, and emittance diagnostic for electron beams using active plasma lenses Open
High-resolution (sub-%), single-shot energy distribution, and emittance measurements of GeV-class electron beams generated by laser plasma accelerators (LPAs) have been enabled through the use of an active plasma lens combined with relativ…
View article: Relativistic laser driven electron accelerator using micro-channel plasma targets
Relativistic laser driven electron accelerator using micro-channel plasma targets Open
We present an experimental demonstration of the efficient acceleration of electrons beyond 60 MeV using micro-channel plasma targets. We employed a high-contrast, 2.5 J, 32 fs short pulse laser interacting with a 5 μm inner diameter, 300 μ…
View article: Accelerated protons from near critical density gaseous targets
Accelerated protons from near critical density gaseous targets Open
We report the generation of energetic protons from the interaction of an intense laser pulse with a near critical plasma density gaseous target. The target was formed by tailoring the gas flow of a hypersonic jet with externally generated …