P. Allan

TL;DR: The experimental data are in closer agreement with simulations using the model of Stewart and Pyatt and an alternative due to Ecker and Kröll suggested by recent x-ray free-electron laser experiments is suggested.

TL;DR: In this article, the Orion laser system was used to study dense plasmas created by a combination of short pulse laser heating and compression by laser driven shocks, and the results indicated that the Ecker and Kroll model overestimates substantially the ionization potential depression in this regime.

TL;DR: In this article, the Orion laser system was used to study dense plasmas created by a combination of short pulse laser heating and compression by laser driven shocks, and the results indicated that the Ecker and Kroll model overestimates substantially the ionization potential depression in this regime.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate the possibility of heating a dense plasma to a maximum temperature of 560 −± 40 eV using a few-Joule, relativistic-intensity laser pulse.

TL;DR: A high-resolution x-ray spectrometer for measuring the shapes of spectral lines produced from laser-irradiated targets on the Orion laser facility, which utilizes a spherically bent crystal geometry to spatially focus and spectrally analyze photons from foil or microdot targets.