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Structural defects in 2D-transition metal dichalcogenides are critical in modulating their optical and electrical behavior. Nevertheless, precise defect control within the monolayer regime poses a significant challenge. Herein, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Anagha Gopinath , Faiha Mujeeb , Subhabrata Dhar , Jyoti Mohanty

An improved acceleration scheme to produce protons with controlled divergence and concentrated energy density is studied using ultrashort ultraintense (USUI) laser pulse interaction with a tailored hole-target in target normal sheath…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Huan Wang , Lihua Cao , X. T. He

Irradiation of sharp silver tips with femtosecond laser pulses leads to photoassisted coherent field emission without a static field. We reconstruct the time profile of the emission, and show that the process is entirely governed by the…

Dielectric laser acceleration draws upon nano-fabrication techniques to build photonic structures for high gradient electron acceleration. At the small spatial scales characteristic of these structures conventional accelerator techniques…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 David Cesar , Pietro Musumeci , R. Joel England

The generation of ultra-relativistic positron beams with short duration ($\tau_{e^+} \leq 30$ fs), small divergence ($\theta_{e^+} \simeq 3$ mrad), and high density ($n_{e^+} \simeq 10^{14} - 10^{15}$ cm$^{-3}$) from a fully optical setup…

Electron acceleration by relativistically intense laser beam propagating along a curved surface allows to split softly the accelerated electron bunch and the laser beam. The presence of a curved surface allows to switch an adiabatic…

The momentum spectrum and the number density of created electron-positron pairs in a frequency modulated laser field are investigated using quantum kinetic equation. It is found that the momentum spectrum presents obvious interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 C. Gong , Z. L. Li , B. S. Xie , Y. J. Li

It's shown that, with strong target ablation monoenergetic protons along the laser direction is available during the laser aluminum foil interaction, which is different from the classic TNSA theory. When the laser pre-pulse is too strong…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Shuan Zhao , Chen Lin , Jiaer Chen , Xueqing Yan

We examine ion acceleration by irradiating a hundred TW laser pulse on a double-layer target. It is shown analytically and by three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations that higher energy protons are obtained by using material with a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-03-03 Toshimasa Morita , Sergei V. Bulanov , Timur Zh. Esirkepov , James Koga , Masaki Kando

Dense positrons are shown to be effectively generated from laser-solid interactions in the strong-field quantum electrodynamics (QED) regime. Whether these positrons are polarized has not yet been reported, limiting their potential…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-07-14 Huai-Hang Song , Wei-Min Wang , Yu-Tong Li

We report on the development of a highly directional, narrow energy band, short time duration proton beam operating at high repetition rate, suitable for measurements of stopping power in high energy density plasmas as well as other…

The dynamics of an electron bunch irradiated by two focused colliding super-intense laser pulses and the resulting gamma and electron-positron production are studied. Due to attractors of electron dynamics in a standing wave created by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 M. Jirka , O. Klimo , S. V. Bulanov , T. Zh. Esirkepov , E. Gelfer , S. S. Bulanov , S. Weber , G. Korn

Here, we demonstrate the radiative polarization of high-energy electron beams in collisions with ultrashort pulsed bi-chromatic laser fields. Employing a Boltzmann kinetic approach for the electron distribution allows us to simulate the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-12-06 Daniel Seipt , Dario Del Sorbo , Christopher P. Ridgers , Alec G. R. Thomas

A new perspective on how to manipulate molecules by means of very strong laser pulses is emerging with insights from the so-called light-induced potentials, which are the adiabatic potential energy surfaces of molecules severely distorted…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-03-03 Bo Y. Chang , Ignacio R. Sola , Seokmin Shin

The interaction of an ultra-intense laser with matter is an efficient source of high-energy particles, with efforts directed towards narrowing the divergence and simultaneously increasing the brightness. In this paper we report on emission…

We report on the concept of an innovative source to produce polarized proton/deuteron beams of a kinetic energy up to several GeV from a laser-driven plasma accelerator. Spin effects have been implemented into the PIC simulation code VLPL…

An ultrarelativistic electron beam passing through an intense laser pulse emits radiation around its direction of propagation into a characteristic angular profile. Here we show that measurement of the variances of this profile in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 T. G. Blackburn , E. Gerstmayr , S. P. D. Mangles , M. Marklund

Laser-driven proton acceleration provides a powerful route for generating ultrashort, high-charge proton beams. Many applications, including secondary neutron sources and inertial fusion, benefit from tight proton beam focusing. Concave…

Laser control of ultrafast double proton transfer is investigated for a two-dimensional model system describing stepwise and concerted transfer pathways. The pulse design has been done by employing optimal control theory in combination with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Mahmoud Abdel-Latif , Oliver Kühn

Density dowmramp injection has been demonstrated to be an elegant and efficient approach for generating high quality electron beams in laser wakefield accelerators. Yet, the charge of the produced beam is tens of pC per Joule of laser…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-03-05 Celine Hue , Yang Wan , Eitan Y. Levine , Victor Malka