Motonobu Tampo

TL;DR: This work combines production of compressed matter in a laser-driven implosion with picosecond-fast heating by a laser pulse timed to coincide with the peak compression, allowing efficient compression and heating to be carried out simultaneously, providing a route to efficient fusion energy production.

TL;DR: In this article, the first experimental demonstration of high harmonic generation in the relativistic limit was obtained on the Vulcan Petawatt laser, achieving high conversion efficiencies (η>10−6 per harmonic) and bright emission (>1022 photons s−1 mm−2 mrad−2 (0.1% bandwidth)) at wavelengths <4nm.

TL;DR: It is inferred from a particle-in-cell simulation that the high energy ions are generated at the rear side of the target due to the formation of a strong dipole vortex structure in subcritical density plasmas.

TL;DR: High-conductivity devices consisting of transient plasmas that increase the energy density of MeV electrons generated in laser–matter interactions by more than one order of magnitude hold promise for applications using high energy-density particles and should trigger growth in charged particle optics.

TL;DR: Unique high-current and short-bunch features make laser-driven proton bunches an excitation source for time-resolved determination of radical yields and points to future investigations of the radiobiological effects of Laser-driven ion beams.