Energy extraction from pulsed amplified stimulated emission lasers operating under conditions of strong saturation
JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS 23:6 (2006) 1057-1067
GeV laser-plasma electron acceleration in a cm-scale capillary waveguide
Optica Publishing Group (2006) jthb1
High energy density science with FELs, intense short pulse tunable x-ray sources - art. no. 626101
P SOC PHOTO-OPT INS 6261 (2006) 26101-26101
Abstract:
Short pulse (< 100 fs) tunable X-ray and VUV laser sources, based on the. free electron laser (FEL) concept, will be a watershed for high energy density research in several areas. These new 4(th) generation light sources will have extremely high fields and short wavelength (similar to 0.1 nm) with peak spectral brightness -photons/(s/mrad(2)/mm(2)/0.1% bandwidth- 10(10) greater than 3(rd) generation light sources. We briefly discuss several applications: the creation of warm dense matter (WDM), probing of near solid density plasmas, and laser-plasma spectroscopy of ions in plasmas. The study of dense plasmas has been severely hampered by the fact that laser-based probes that can directly access the matter in this regime have been unavailable and these new 4(th) generation sources will remove these restrictions. Finally, we present the plans for a user-oriented set of facilities that will incorporate high-energy, intense short-pulse, and x-ray lasers at the first x-ray FEL, the LCLS to be opened at SLAC in 2009.Laboratory Observation of Secondary Shock Formation Ahead of a Strongly Radiative Blast Wave
Chapter in High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, Springer Nature (2006) 219-225
Laser-driven particle accelerators: new sources of energetic particles and radiation - Introduction
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 364:1840 (2006) 553-557