Short-Pulse Lasers and Fast Ignition

Presentations

• Status of the OMEGA EP High-Energy Petawatt Laser Facility

  ORAL

  Nov. 1, 2006, 9:30 AM – Nov. 1, 2006, 9:42 AM

  Authors

  • C. Stoeckl

  • J. Bromage

  • J.H. Kelly

  • T.J. Kessler

  • B.E. Kruschwitz

  • S.J. Loucks

  • R.L. McCrory

  • D.D. Meyerhofer

  • S.F.B. Morse

  • A.L. Rigatti

  • T.C. Sangster

  • W. Theobald

  • L.J. Waxer

  • J.D. Zuegel

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

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• High-resolution 15-100 keV K-alpha radiography for high-energy density experiments

  ORAL

  Nov. 1, 2006, 9:42 AM – Nov. 1, 2006, 9:54 AM

  Authors

  • Hye-Sook Park

  • R. Tommasini

  • Michael H. Key

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • A. MacKinnon

    • Lawrence Livermore National Lab

  • P. Patel

  • B. Remington

    • LLNL

  • M. Tabak

  • R. Towm

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • Lawrence Livermore National Lab
    • LLNL, CA, USA

  • C. A. Back

  • E. Giraldez

    • GA, CA, USA

  • C. Stoeckl

  • W. Theobald

    • LLE, NY, USA

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• Characterization of Fast-Electron Beam Propagation Through Solid-Density Matter by Optical Transition Radiation

  ORAL

  Nov. 1, 2006, 9:54 AM – Nov. 1, 2006, 10:06 AM

  Authors

  • M. Storm

  • J. Myatt

  • C. Stoeckl

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

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• Anomalous Transmission through Thin Al Foils Driven by High Contrast Ultra-intense Laser

  ORAL

  Nov. 1, 2006, 10:06 AM – Nov. 1, 2006, 10:18 AM

  Authors

  • Takeshi Matsuoka

  • T. Lin

  • S. Reed

  • A. Maksimchuk

    • CUOS, U. of Michigan

  • A.A. Batishcheva

    • Delta Search Labs.

  • J. Fox

  • O.V. Batishchev

    • MIT

  • V.Yu. Bychenkov

    • P. N. Lebedev Phys. Inst.

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• Integrated 1D PIC Simulation of Fast Ignition

  ORAL

  Nov. 1, 2006, 10:18 AM – Nov. 1, 2006, 10:30 AM

  Authors

  • Brian Chrisman

  • Yasuhiko Sentoku

    • Nevada Terawatt Facility, Physics Department, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
    • Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno
    • University of Nevada, Reno
    • Nevada Terawatt Facility, University of Nevada

  • A. Kemp

  • T. Cowan

    • University of Nevada, Reno

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• The Channeling Effect in the Underdense Plasma

  ORAL

  Nov. 1, 2006, 10:30 AM – Nov. 1, 2006, 10:42 AM

  Authors

  • G. Li

  • C. Ren

  • V.N. Goncharov

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

  • W.B. Mori

    • U. of California, Los Angeles

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• Beam-plasma interaction analyzed by a hybrid simulation code

  ORAL

  Nov. 1, 2006, 10:42 AM – Nov. 1, 2006, 10:54 AM

  Authors

  • Toshihiro Taguchi

    • Setsunan University, Osaka, Japan
    • Setsunan University

  • Kunioki Mima

    • ILE, Osaka Univ.
    • ILE, Osaka University
    • Institute of Laser Engineering Osaka Univ.

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• Relativistic electron transport in wire and foil targets driven by intense short pulse lasers

  ORAL

  Nov. 1, 2006, 10:54 AM – Nov. 1, 2006, 11:06 AM

  Authors

  • R.J. Mason

    • Research Applications

  • R.B. Stephens

    • General Atomics

  • M. Wei

    • UCSD

  • R.R. Freeman

  • J. Hill

  • L.D. Van Woerkom

    • The Ohio State University

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• Energy transport experiments using the Vulcan petawatt laser facility

  ORAL

  Nov. 1, 2006, 11:06 AM – Nov. 1, 2006, 11:18 AM

  Authors

  • Peter Norreys

    • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

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• Collisional Relaxation of Super Thermal Electrons Generated by Relativistic Laser Pulses in Thin Solid Targets

  ORAL

  Nov. 1, 2006, 11:18 AM – Nov. 1, 2006, 11:30 AM

  Authors

  • Andreas Kemp

  • Emmanuel d'Humieres

  • Yasuhiko Sentoku

    • Nevada Terawatt Facility, Physics Department, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
    • Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno
    • University of Nevada, Reno
    • Nevada Terawatt Facility, University of Nevada

  • Hui Chen

  • Hyun Chung

  • Stephanie Hansen

    • LLNL

  • Ronnie Shepherd

  • Scott Wilks

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • LLNL

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• Three-dimensional fast electron transport for ignition-scale inertial fusion targets

  ORAL

  Nov. 1, 2006, 11:30 AM – Nov. 1, 2006, 11:42 AM

  Authors

  • Javier Honrubia

    • Universidad Politecnica, Madrid, Spain

  • Juergen Meyer-ter-Vehn

    • Max-Planck-Institut fuer Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany

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• Instabilities of Relativistic Electron Beams in Plasmas: Spatial Growth and Absolute Instability

  ORAL

  Nov. 1, 2006, 11:42 AM – Nov. 1, 2006, 11:54 AM

  Authors

  • R.W. Short

  • J. Myatt

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

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• K-alpha X-rays, Hot Electrons and Electron Jets from Sub-millijoule Femtosecond Laser Pulses

  ORAL

  Nov. 1, 2006, 11:54 AM – Nov. 1, 2006, 12:06 PM

  Authors

  • Cristina Serbanescu

  • Dmitri Romanov

  • Clarence Capjack

  • Valery Bychenkov

  • Wojciech Rozmus

  • Robert Fedosejevs

    • University of Alberta

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• Spatial evolution of femtosecond-laser-induced aluminum plasma observed by picosecond time-resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy

  ORAL

  Nov. 1, 2006, 12:06 PM – Nov. 1, 2006, 12:18 PM

  Authors

  • Yasuaki Okano

    • Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University

  • Katsuya Oguri

    • NTT Basic Research Laboratories

  • Takeshi Kai

  • Ryou Fujii

  • Hiroaki Nishimura

    • Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University

  • Tadashi Nishikawa

  • Hidetoshi Nakano

    • NTT Basic Research Laboratories

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• Single-shot time resolved measurement of molecular alignment in laser-irradiated gases: application to `self-channeled' plasma columns

  ORAL

  Nov. 1, 2006, 12:18 PM – Nov. 1, 2006, 12:30 PM

  Authors

  • Sanjay Varma

  • Yu-hsin Chen

    • University of Maryland

  • Ilya Alexeev

    • Advanced Technologies and Applications

  • Raphael Moon

    • U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center

  • Howard Milchberg

    • University of Maryland
    • IPST, University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland, College Park

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