Zofia Kalinowska

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors irradiate a thin hydrogen ribbon with a high-power laser to generate a large and pure population of protons, which is used for novel cancer therapies.

TL;DR: In this paper, an experiment was performed using the PALS laser to study laser-target coupling and laser-plasma interaction in an intensity regime ≤1016W/cm2, relevant for the "shock ignition" approach to Inertial Confinement Fusion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed and demonstrated a highly efficient scheme of acceleration of dense matter in which a projectile placed in a cavity is irradiated by a laser beam introduced into the cavity through a hole and then accelerated in a guiding channel by the pressure of a hot plasma produced in the cavity by the laser beam or by the photon pressure of the ultra-intense laser radiation trapped inside the cavity.

TL;DR: In this article, the possible evolution of a pinched plasma column is presented from the results of temporally resolved measurements using a magnetic probe, interferometry and neutron diagnostics performed on the plasma focus PF-1000 device with deuterium as the filling gas.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of the fast electrons on the efficiency of the shock wave production is investigated in a series of dedicated experiments at the Prague Asterix Laser Facility (PALS).