Siegfried Glenzer

TL;DR: In this paper, the dynamics of an exploding laser-produced plasma in a large ambient magneto-plasma was investigated with magnetic flux probes and Langmuir probes, and it was shown that the majority of the ambient ions are energized by the magnetic piston and swept outside the bubble volume.

TL;DR: The first observations of two separate ion acoustic waves in a two ion species plasma with Thomson scattering are reported, showing the phase velocities of the ion-acoustic waves to be a sensitive function of the relative concentrations of the two ions.

TL;DR: Miller et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a capsule performance optimization campaign at the National Ignition Facility to increase the probability of ignition by laser-driven hohlraums, and the required tuning techniques using a variety of ignition capsule surrogates have been demonstrated at the OMEGA facility under scaled Hohlraum and capsule conditions relevant to the ignition design.

TL;DR: In this article, a recent experimental campaign to study the interaction physics of petawatt laser pulses incident at relativistic intensities on solid targets was presented, where an extensive suite of optical, x-ray, and particle diagnostics was employed to characterise the processes of laser absorption, electron generation and transport, thermal and K-alpha xray generation, and proton acceleration.