Victor Malka

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that this randomization of electrons in phase space can be suppressed and that the quality of the electron beams can be dramatically enhanced.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the injection and subsequent acceleration of electrons can be controlled by using a second laser pulse, and the electron beams obtained are stable and tuneable, and compatible with electron bunch durations shorter than 10 fs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report observations of relativistic plasma waves driven to breaking point by the Raman forward-scattering instability induced by short, high-intensity laser pulses.

TL;DR: In this article, scaling laws derived from fluid models and supported by numerical simulations are used to accurately describe the acceleration of proton beams for a large range of laser and target parameters.

TL;DR: In this paper, a unified formalism is presented for the betatron radiation of trapped and accelerated electrons in the so-called bubble regime, the synchrotron radiation of laser-accelerated electrons in usual meter-scale undulators, the nonlinear Thomson scattering from relativistic electrons oscillating in an intense laser field, and the Thomson backscattered radiation of a laser beam by laser accelerated electrons.