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Scattering relativistic electrons with optical lasers can result in a significant frequency upshift for the photons, potentially producing $\gamma$-rays. This is what linear Compton scattering taught us. Ultra-intense lasers offer nowadays…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Marija Vranic , Thomas Grismayer , Sebastian Meuren , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva

We present a new magnetic field generation mechanism in underdense plasmas driven by the beating of two, co-propagating, Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) orbital angular momentum (OAM) laser pulses with different frequencies and also different twist…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Y. Shi , J. Vieira , R. M. G. M. Trines , R. Bingham , B. F. Shen , R. J. Kingham

A spatial light modulator (SLM) is one of the most useful and convenient device to generate structural light beams such as twisted light and complexed images used in modern optical science. The unbounded dimension of twisted light makes it…

High-harmonic generation is one of the most extreme nonlinear-optical processes observed to date. By focusing an intense laser pulse into a gas, the light-atom interaction that occurs during the process of ionising the atoms results in the…

We propose a twisted plasma accelerator capable of generating relativistic electron vortex beams with helical current profiles. The angular momentum of these vortex bunches is quantized, dominates their transverse motion, and results in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 J. Vieira , J. T. Mendonça , F. Quéré

Generating nonclassical light offers a benchmark tool for the fundamental research and potential applications in quantum optics. Conventionally, it has become a standard technique to produce the nonclassical light through the nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-04 Shengwang Du , Jianming Wen , Morton H. Rubin

We experimentally generate optical tornado waves using spatial multiplexing on a single-phase modulation device. In their focal region, the intensity pattern outlines a spiral of decreasing radius and pitch. We examine the propagation…

Laser-triggered ionization injection is a promising way of generating controllable high-quality electrons in plasma-based acceleration. We show that ionization injection of electrons into a fully nonlinear plasma wave wake using a laser…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Xinlu Xu , Jorge Vieira , Mark Hogan , Chan Joshi , Warren Mori

Sub-femtosecond x-ray burst is powerful tool for probing and imaging electronic and concomitant atomic motion in attosecond physics. For years, x-ray source (above 2 keV) had mainly been obtained from X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) or…

A very intense gamma beam of the Gamma Factory facility proposed at CERN can be used to generate radioactive ion beams (RIBs) with high production yields and study the structure of exotic neutron-rich nuclei. The radioactive nuclides are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-12-15 Dragos Nichita , Dimiter Balabanski , Paul Constantin , Witold Krasny , Wieslaw Placzek

Twisted photon states, or photon states with large ($> \hbar$) angular momentum projection in the direction of motion, can photoexcite atomic final states of differing quantum numbers. If the photon symmetry axis coincides with the center…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-14 Andrei Afanasev , Carl E. Carlson , Asmita Mukherjee

A coherent x-ray or gamma ray can be created from a dense electron beam propagating through an intense laser undulator. It is analyzed by using the Landau damping theory which suits better than the conventional linear analysis for the free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 S. Son , S. J. Moon

Recent advances in high-energy and high-peak-power laser systems have opened up new possibilities for fundamental physics research. In this work, the potential of twisted light for the generation of gravitational waves in the high frequency…

We consider harmonics generation and wave-mixing by two-color multi photon resonant excitation of three-level atoms/molecules in strong laser fields. The coherent part of the spectra corresponding to multicolor harmonics generation is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 H. K. Avetissian , B. R. Avchyan , G. F. Mkrtchian

Gamma-ray flash generation in near critical density (NCD) target irradiated by four symmetrical colliding laser pulses is numerically investigated. With peak intensities about $10^{23}$ W/cm$^2$, the laser pulses boost electron energy…

We investigate the generation of twin $\gamma$ ray beams in collision of an ultrahigh intensity laser pulse with a laser wakefield accelerated electron beam by using particle-in-cell simulation. We consider the composed target of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Mamat Ali Bake , Aynisa Tursun , Aimierding Aimidula , Bai-Song Xie

This work discusses the possibility of inducing the emission of gamma radiation from nuclear isomers by two-photon transitions, in the more general context of the problem of the amplification of gamma radiation.

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Silviu Olariu

The simultaneous laser-driven acceleration and angular manipulation of the fast electron beam is experimentally demonstrated. The bunch of multi-MeV energy charged particles is generated during the propagation of the femtosecond laser pulse…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-19 K. Ivanov , D. Gorlova , I. Tsymbalov , I. Tsygvintsev , S. Shulyapov , R. Volkov , A. Savelev

We present a non-relativistic theory of quantum radiation generated by shaking a two-level atom in vacuum. Such radiation has the same origin of photon emission in dynamical Casimir effect. By performing a time-dependent "dressing"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Lezhi Lo , C. K. Law

Using three-dimensional kinetic simulations, we examine the emission of collimated gamma-ray beams from structured laser-irradiated targets with a pre-filled cylindrical channel. The channel guides the incident laser pulse, enabling…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 O. Jansen , T. Wang , Z. Gong , X. Ribeyre , E. d'Humières , D. Stutman , T. Toncian , A. Arefiev