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José Tito Mendonça

Researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico

Publications -  264
Citations -  4382

José Tito Mendonça is an academic researcher from Instituto Superior Técnico. The author has contributed to research in topics: Plasma & Photon. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 254 publications receiving 3804 citations. Previous affiliations of José Tito Mendonça include Technical University of Lisbon & Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

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Plasma based charged-particle accelerators

TL;DR: In this article, the acceleration of charged particles to relativistic energies by plasma waves that are created by intense laser and particle beams is studied, and the underlying physics and the present status of high gradient and high energy plasma accelerators are presented.
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Nonlinear laser driven donut wakefields for positron and electron acceleration

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that higher order Laguerre-Gaussian laser pulses can drive nonlinear wakefields with strong positron accelerating gradients comparable to those of a spherical bubble.
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Amplification and generation of ultra-intense twisted laser pulses via stimulated Raman scattering

TL;DR: Th theoretically and with ab initio three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations that stimulated Raman backscattering can generate and amplify twisted lasers to petawatt intensities in plasmas may open new research directions in nonlinear optics and high–energy-density science, compact plasma-based accelerators and light sources.
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Theory of photon acceleration

TL;DR: In this paper, the Wigner-Moyal equation was derived for photon acceleration in a cavity, and the photon equivalent charge was shown to be a function of the photon acceleration.
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Using high-power lasers for detection of elastic photon-photon scattering

TL;DR: The problem of noise sources is reviewed, and it is found that the noise level can be reduced well below the signal level, and detection of elastic photon-photon scattering may for the first time be achieved.