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Colin N. Danson
Researcher at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Publications - 65
Citations - 3257
Colin N. Danson is an academic researcher from Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Laser & Chirped pulse amplification. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 63 publications receiving 2872 citations.
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Electron acceleration from the breaking of relativistic plasma waves
A. Modena,Zulfikar Najmudin,A. E. Dangor,C. E. Clayton,K. A. Marsh,C. Joshi,Victor Malka,Christopher B. Darrow,Colin N. Danson,David Neely,F. N. Walsh +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report observations of relativistic plasma waves driven to breaking point by the Raman forward-scattering instability induced by short, high-intensity laser pulses.
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Petawatt and exawatt class lasers worldwide
Colin N. Danson,Constantin Haefner,Jake Bromage,Thomas Butcher,Jean-Christophe Chanteloup,Enam Chowdhury,Almantas Galvanauskas,Leonida A. Gizzi,Joachim Hein,David Hillier,Nicholas Hopps,Yoshiaki Kato,Efim A. Khazanov,Ryosuke Kodama,Georg Korn,Ruxin Li,Yutong Li,Jens Limpert,Jingui Ma,Chang Hee Nam,David Neely,Dimitrios Papadopoulos,Rory R. Penman,Liejia Qian,Jorge J. Rocca,Andrey Shaykin,Craig W. Siders,Christopher Spindloe,Sándor Szatmári,Raoul Trines,Jianqiang Zhu,Ping Zhu,Jonathan D. Zuegel +32 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a comprehensive update of the current status of ultra-high-power lasers and demonstrate how the technology has developed, and what technologies are to be deployed to get to these new regimes, and some critical issues facing their development.
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Efficient extreme UV harmonics generated from picosecond laser pulse interactions with solid targets
Peter Norreys,Matthew Zepf,S. Moustaizis,AP Fews,Jianjun Zhang,Peter D. Lee,M. Bakarezos,Colin N. Danson,A Dyson,Paul Gibbon,Panagiotis A. Loukakos,D. Neely,F. N. Walsh,Justin Wark,A. E. Dangor +14 more
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Vulcan Petawatt?an ultra-high-intensity interaction facility
Colin N. Danson,P.A. Brummitt,R. J. Clarke,John Collier,B. Fell,A.J. Frackiewicz,S. Hancock,S. J. Hawkes,C. Hernandez-Gomez,P. Holligan,M. H. R. Hutchinson,A. Kidd,W.J. Lester,I.O. Musgrave,D. Neely,D.R. Neville,Peter Norreys,D.A. Pepler,C.J. Reason,Waseem Shaikh,Trevor Winstone,R. W. W. Wyatt,B.E. Wyborn +22 more
TL;DR: The Central Laser Facility (CLF) as mentioned in this paper is a Petawatt (1015 W) interaction facility available to the UK and international user community for a wide-ranging experimental programme in fundamental physics and advanced applications.
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Generation of terawatt pulses by use of optical parametric chirped pulse amplification
Ian N. Ross,John Collier,Pavel Matousek,Colin N. Danson,David Neely,Ric M. Allott,D.A. Pepler,Cristina Hernandez-Gomez,Karoly Osvay +8 more
TL;DR: Some spectral narrowing during amplification was shown to be compatible with the time-varying profile of the pump beam and consistent with the measured recompressed pulse durations before and after amplification, respectively.