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Design of the 10 PW OPCPA facility for the vulcan laser

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers (2010)

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I Musgrave, O Chekhlov, J Collier, R Clarke, A Dunne, S Hancock, R Heathcote, C Hernandez-Gomez, M Galimberti, A Lyachev, P Matousek, D Neely, P Norreys, I Ross, Y Tang, T Winstone, G New

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We present the progress made in developing 10PW OPCPA facility for the Vulcan laser to produce pulses with focused intensities >1023 Wcm-2. This power level will be delivered by generating pulses with >300J in 30fs. These pulses will be delivered to two target areas: in one target area they will be combined with the existing Vulcan Petawatt beamline and a new target area will be created for high intensity interactions. © 2010 Optical Society of America.

Experimental detection of post-soliton structures following high intensity laser interaction with a sub-critical gas jet

37th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics 2010, EPS 2010 3 (2010) 1960-1963

Authors:

G Sarri, DK Singh, JR Davies, KL Lancaster, EL Clark, S Hassan, J Jiang, N Kageiwa, N Lopes, A Rehman, C Russo, RHH Scott, T Tanimoto, Z Najmudin, KA Tanaka, M Tatarakis, M Borghesi, P Norreys

New developments in energy transfer and transport studies in relativistic laser-plasma interactions

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 52:12 (2010)

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PA Norreys, JS Green, KL Lancaster, APL Robinson, RHH Scott, F Perez, HP Schlenvoight, S Baton, S Hulin, B Vauzour, JJ Santos, DJ Adams, K Markey, B Ramakrishna, M Zepf, MN Quinn, XH Yuan, P McKenna, J Schreiber, JR Davies, DP Higginson, FN Beg, C Chen, T Ma, P Patel

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Two critical issues related to the success of fast ignition inertial fusion have been vigorously investigated in a co-ordinated campaign in the European Union and the United States. These are the divergence of the fast electron beam generated in intense, PW laser-plasma interactions and the fast electron energy transport with the use of high intensity contrast ratio laser pulses. Proof is presented that resistivity gradient-induced magnetic fields can guide fast electrons over significant distances in (initially) cold metallic targets. Comparison of experiments undertaken in both France and the United States suggests that an important factor in obtaining efficient coupling into dense plasma is the irradiation with high intensity contrast ratio laser pulses, rather than the colour of the laser pulse itself. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd.
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New onomastic for Brix

Epigraphica 72 (2010) 451-454

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A Breda, GL Gregori

All-optical steering of laser-wakefield-accelerated electron beams

Physical Review Letters 105:21 (2010)

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A Popp, J Vieira, J Osterhoff, Z Major, R Hörlein, M Fuchs, R Weingartner, TP Rowlands-Rees, M Marti, RA Fonseca, SF Martins, LO Silva, SM Hooker, F Krausz, F Grüner, S Karsch

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We investigate the influence of a tilted laser-pulse-intensity front on laser-wakefield acceleration. Such asymmetric light pulses may be exploited to obtain control over the electron-bunch-pointing direction and in our case allowed for reproducible electron-beam steering in an all-optical way within an 8 mrad opening window with respect to the initial laser axis. We also discovered evidence of collective electron-betatron oscillations due to off-axis electron injection into the wakefield induced by a pulse-front tilt. These findings are supported by 3D particle-in-cell simulations. © 2010 The American Physical Society.
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