Multi-scale simulation of intense laser plasma interactions
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
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Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
Roger Evans (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Lehmann G
(2018)
Plasma-based polarizer and waveplate at large laser intensity.
in Physical review. E
Gong Z
(2020)
Direct laser acceleration of electrons assisted by strong laser-driven azimuthal plasma magnetic fields.
in Physical review. E
Huang TW
(2017)
Relativistic laser hosing instability suppression and electron acceleration in a preformed plasma channel.
in Physical review. E
Jirka M
(2016)
Electron dynamics and ? and e(-)e(+) production by colliding laser pulses.
in Physical review. E
Gong Z
(2020)
Proton sheet crossing in thin relativistic plasma irradiated by a femtosecond petawatt laser pulse.
in Physical review. E
Tang YH
(2019)
Deflection of a reflected intense circularly polarized light beam induced by asymmetric radiation pressure.
in Physical review. E
Ju LB
(2017)
Production of high-angular-momentum electron beams in laser-plasma interactions.
in Physical review. E
Qu K
(2017)
Plasma q-plate for generation and manipulation of intense optical vortices.
in Physical review. E
Gong Z
(2020)
Energetic spin-polarized proton beams from two-stage coherent acceleration in laser-driven plasma.
in Physical review. E
Lehmann G
(2019)
Plasma volume holograms for focusing and mode conversion of ultraintense laser pulses.
in Physical review. E
Valenta P
(2020)
Polarity reversal of wakefields driven by ultrashort pulse laser.
in Physical review. E
Hadjisolomou P
(2021)
Gamma-ray flash generation in irradiating a thin foil target by a single-cycle tightly focused extreme power laser pulse.
in Physical review. E
Gong Z
(2017)
High-efficiency ?-ray flash generation via multiple-laser scattering in ponderomotive potential well.
in Physical review. E
Culfa O
(2016)
Plasma scale-length effects on electron energy spectra in high-irradiance laser plasmas.
in Physical review. E
Hu Q
(2017)
Intense EM filamentation in relativistic hot plasmas
in Physics Letters A
Smith J
(2021)
A particle-in-cell code comparison for ion acceleration: EPOCH, LSP, and WarpX
in Physics of Plasmas
Younis D
(2022)
Generation of collimated vortex gamma-rays from intense Poincaré beam-plasma interaction
in Physics of Plasmas
Morris S
(2021)
Highly efficient conversion of laser energy to hard x-rays in high-intensity laser-solid simulations
in Physics of Plasmas
Ma Y
(2018)
Angular streaking of betatron X-rays in a transverse density gradient laser-wakefield accelerator
in Physics of Plasmas
Valenta P
(2020)
Recoil effects on reflection from relativistic mirrors in laser plasmas
in Physics of Plasmas
Yuan T
(2017)
Target transverse size and laser polarization effects on pair production during ultra-relativistic-intense laser interaction with solid targets
in Physics of Plasmas
Wu X
(2021)
Efficiency enhancement of ion acceleration from thin target irradiated by multi-PW few-cycle laser pulses
in Physics of Plasmas
Morris S
(2022)
Improvements to collisional ionization models for particle-in-cell codes
in Physics of Plasmas
Jia Q
(2017)
Kinetic simulations of laser parametric amplification in magnetized plasmas
in Physics of Plasmas
Spencer S
(2020)
Inflationary stimulated Raman scattering in shock-ignition plasmas
in Physics of Plasmas
Skender M
(2014)
Whistler wave generation by non-gyrotropic, relativistic, electron beams
in Physics of Plasmas
Jia Q
(2016)
Distinguishing Raman from strongly coupled Brillouin amplification for short pulses
in Physics of Plasmas
Tsai H
(2015)
Compact tunable Compton x-ray source from laser-plasma accelerator and plasma mirror
in Physics of Plasmas
Gingell I
(2023)
Hybrid simulations of the decay of reconnected structures downstream of the bow shock
in Physics of Plasmas
Arefiev A
(2015)
Temporal resolution criterion for correctly simulating relativistic electron motion in a high-intensity laser field
in Physics of Plasmas
DuBois T
(2017)
Origins of plateau formation in ion energy spectra under target normal sheath acceleration
in Physics of Plasmas
Ferri J
(2018)
Proton acceleration by a pair of successive ultraintense femtosecond laser pulses
in Physics of Plasmas
Wang T
(2020)
Electron confinement by laser-driven azimuthal magnetic fields during direct laser acceleration
in Physics of Plasmas
Valenta P
(2021)
On the electromagnetic-electron rings originating from the interaction of high-power short-pulse laser and underdense plasma
in Physics of Plasmas
Lehmann G
(2017)
Laser-driven plasma photonic crystals for high-power lasers
in Physics of Plasmas
Makur K
(2023)
Collimation and energy enhancement in laser driven MeV protons
in Physics of Plasmas
Schmitz H
(2012)
Target normal sheath acceleration sheath fields for arbitrary electron energy distribution
in Physics of Plasmas
Tsiklauri D
(2016)
Collisionless, phase-mixed, dispersive, Gaussian Alfven pulse in transversely inhomogeneous plasma
in Physics of Plasmas
Hadjisolomou P
(2020)
Preplasma effects on laser ion generation from thin foil targets
in Physics of Plasmas
Dieckmann M
(2015)
Shocks in unmagnetized plasma with a shear flow: Stability and magnetic field generation
in Physics of Plasmas
Zhang L
(2021)
Brilliant attosecond ?-ray emission and high-yield positron production from intense laser-irradiated nano-micro array
in Physics of Plasmas
Arefiev A
(2016)
Beyond the ponderomotive limit: Direct laser acceleration of relativistic electrons in sub-critical plasmas
in Physics of Plasmas
Arefiev A
(2020)
Birefringence in thermally anisotropic relativistic plasmas and its impact on laser-plasma interactions
in Physics of Plasmas
Xiao K
(2018)
Multidimensional effects on proton acceleration using high-power intense laser pulses
in Physics of Plasmas
Ma Y
(2021)
The effects of laser polarization and wavelength on injection dynamics of a laser wakefield accelerator
in Physics of Plasmas
Siminos E
(2016)
Modeling ultrafast shadowgraphy in laser-plasma interaction experiments
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
McIlvenny A
(2020)
Characteristics of ion beams generated in the interaction of ultra-short laser pulses with ultra-thin foils
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Schmitz H
(2012)
Collisional particle-in-cell modelling of the generation and control of relativistic electron beams produced by ultra-intense laser pulses
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Formenti A
(2022)
Modeling and simulations of ultra-intense laser-driven bremsstrahlung with double-layer targets
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
McCusker O.
(2023)
Multi-species ion acceleration from sub-ps, PW interactions with ultra-thin foils
in PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION
Description | Developed, tested and made available a very high performance computer model of lasers and high temperature plasmas. Used the model to design a novel electron mirror to control and collimate the relativistic electrons from an ultra high power laser beam. |
Exploitation Route | The plasma code Epoch is now widely used by universities in the UK and Europe. |
Sectors | Education,Energy,Environment |
Description | The plasma code Epoch has been used by us to address problems in laser plasma physics relevant to Inertial Confinement Fusion. The code is used by many universities in the UK and Europe. |
First Year Of Impact | 2011 |
Sector | Education,Energy |