Sven Fritzler

TL;DR: It is shown that a gain in maximum electron energy of up to 200 megaelectronvolts can be achieved, along with an improvement in the quality of the ultrashort electron beam in the forced laser wake field regime.

TL;DR: A new approach for proton acceleration up to energies within the therapeutic window between 60 and 200 MeV by using modern, high intensity and compact laser systems is reported, which could revolutionize cancer treatment by bringing the "lab to the hospital-rather than the hospital to the lab".

TL;DR: In this article, the interaction of a 10 Hz table-top laser, focused to intensities of 6×10^19 W/cm^2, with 6-μm-thin foil targets was used to induce 11B(p,n)11C reactions, which could yield an integrated activity of 13.4 MBq (0.36 mCi).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors observed bunches of electrons up to 200 MeV, accelerated in the wakefield of the laser pulse, emitting very energetic Bremsstrahlung photons which were diagnosed directly with photoconductors and indirectly through photonuclear activation measurements.

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that there is no correlation between the acceleration of electrons and plasma wave production and particle-in-cell simulations show that the laser ponderomotive force produces an ion channel.