Plasma devices for focusing extreme light pulses
Journal article, 2014

Since the inception of the laser, there has been a constant push toward increasing the laser peak intensity, as this has lead to opening the exploration of new territories, and the production of compact sources of particles and radiation with unprecedented characteristics. However, increasing the peak laser intensity is usually performed by enhancing the produced laser properties, either by lowering its duration or increasing its energy, which involves a great level of complexity for the laser chain, or comes at great cost. Focusing tightly is another possibility to increase the laser intensity, but this comes at the risk of damaging the optics with target debris, as it requires their placement in close proximity to the interaction region. Plasma devices are an attractive, compact alternative to tightly focus extreme light pulses and further increase the final laser intensity.

Author

J. Fuchs

Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique CEA

Arkady Gonoskov

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Condensed Matter Theory

M. Nakatsutsumi

European XFEL GmbH

W. Nazarov

University of St Andrews

F. Quere

CEA Saclay

A. M. Sergeev

Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod

X. Q. Yan

Peking University

European Physical Journal: Special Topics

1951-6355 (ISSN) 1951-6401 (eISSN)

Vol. 223 6 1169-1173

Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)

Other Engineering and Technologies

DOI

10.1140/epjst/e2014-02169-y

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10/7/2017