funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme through the European IMPULSE project under grant agreement No.871161;from LASERLAB-EUROPE V under grant agreement No.871124;funding from the Ministerio de Ciencia,Innovación y Universidades in Spain,through ICTS Equipment grant No.EQC2018-005230-P,further from grant PID2021-125389OA-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER,UE;‘ERDF A way of making Europe’,by the European Union and in addition from grants from the Junta de Castilla y León,No.CLP263P20 and No.CLP087U16
We introduce a versatile high-repetition-rate solid tape target system suitable for relativistic laser-plasma driven secondary sources. We demonstrate the operation and stability monitoring based on a petawatt laser f...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12205008);the NSFC Innovation Group Project(Grant No.11921006);the National Grand Instrument Project(Grant Nos.2019YFF01014402 and 2019YFF01014403);the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars(Grant No.12225501).
The newly built Compact Laser Plasma Accelerator-Therapy facility at Peking University will deliver 60 J/1 Hz laser pulses with 30 fs duration.Driven by this petawatt laser facility,proton beams with energy up to 200 ...
support from the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.XDB34030000);the National Key R & D Program of China (No.2022YFA1602404);National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. U1832129);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.2017309);the Program for Innovative Research Team (in Science and Technology) in University of Henan Province of China (No.21IRTSTHN011)。
Laser-accelerated high-flux-intensity heavy-ion beams are important for new types of accelerators.A particle-in-cell program(Smilei) is employed to simulate the entire process of Station of Extreme Light(SEL) 100 PW l...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2022YFA1604401);the Shanghai Science and Technology Committee Program(Grant Nos.22560780100 and 23560750200);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61925507).
After reaching a world record of 10 PW,the peak power development of the titanium-sapphire(Ti:sapphire)PW ultraintense lasers has hit a bottleneck,and it seems to be difficult to continue increasing due to the difficu...
supported by the Innovation and Development Foundation of China Academy of Engineering Physics(No.CX20200022);the Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory Independent Research Projects of China Academy of Engineering Physics(No.JCKYS2022212004)。
A cylindricalÖffner stretcher based on ternary reflector(COSTER)is proposed and analyzed.Compared with the traditionalÖffner stretcher,the COSTER has no off-axis aberration in the multipass configuration,and the outpu...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Nos.61527821,61905257,and U1930115);the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project(No.2017SHZDZX02)
A multistep pulse compressor(MPC)based on a single-pass single-grating pair(SSGP)is proposed to simplify the entire multi-petawatt(PW)compressor.Only one grating pair with relatively long perpendicular distance is use...
partially supported by the Shanghai Natural Science Foundation(No.20ZR1464400);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Nos.12074399,12204500 and 12004403);the Key Projects of Intergovernmental International Scientific and Technological Innovation Cooperation(No.2021YFE0116700);the Shanghai Sailing Program(No.22YF1455300);the International Partnership Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.181231KYSB20170022);the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Nos.CXJJ-21S015,XDA25020311 and XDA25020105);NSAF(No.U1930126)
As optical parametric chirped pulse amplification has been widely adopted for the generation of extreme intensity laser sources,nonlinear crystals of large aperture are demanded for high-energy amplifiers.Yttrium calc...
The Orion laser facility at AWE provides multiple beams to target delivering synchronized pulses at both nanosecond and sub-picosecond duration.In the latter,the peak power approaches the petawatt level.This paper pre...
This work was supported by the European Research Council(ERC)under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program(Grant Agreement No.787539);It was also supported by Grant No.ANR-17-CE30-0026-Pinnacle from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche;We acknowledge GENCI,France,for granting us access to HPC resources at TGCC/CCRT(Allocation No.A0010506129);S.N.C.acknowledges support from the Extreme Light Infrastructure Nuclear Physics(ELI-NP)Phase II,a project co-financed by the Romanian Government and the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund-the Competitiveness Operational Programme(1/07 July 2016,COP,ID 1334);by the project ELI-RO-2020-23 funded by IFA(Romania);The PETAL laser was designed and constructed by CEA under the financial auspices of the Conseil Régional d’Aquitaine,the French Ministry of Research,and the European Union;The CRACC diagnostic was designed and commissioned on the LMJ-PETAL facility as a result of the PETAL+project coordinated by University of Bordeaux and funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche under Grant No.ANR-10-EQPX-42-01;The LMJ-PETAL experiment presented in this article was supported by the Association Lasers et Plasmas and by CEA;The diagnostics used in the experiment have been realized in the framework of the EquipEx PETAL+via Contract No.ANR-10-EQPX-0048.
Laser-driven neutron sources could offer a promising alternative to those based on conventional accelerator technologies in delivering compact beams of high brightness and short duration.We examine this through partic...
supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP20H01882。
We have experimentally improved the temporal contrast of the petawatt J-KAREN-P laser facility.We have investigated how the generation of pre-pulses by post-pulses changes due to the temporal overlap between the stret...