Short Pulse Laser-Matter Interactions

Presentations

• K-Photon and Thermal X-Ray-Emission Measurements from Planar Copper Foil Targets Irradiated by High-Intensity Laser Pulses

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 8:45 AM – Nov. 18, 2008, 8:57 AM

  Authors

  • P.M. Nilson

  • W. Theobald

  • J.F. Myatt

  • C. Stoeckl

  • P.A. Jaanimagi

  • J.A. Delettrez

  • M. Storm

  • R. Betti

  • D.D. Meyerhofer

  • T.C. Sangster

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

  • J.S. Green

  • K.L. Lancaster

  • P.A. Norreys

    • RAL

  • F. Beg

    • U. of California, San Diego

  • R.B. Stephens

    • General Atomics

  • M.H. Key

    • LLNL

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• Intense Laser-to-Fast-Electron Coupling Efficiency in Wedge-Shaped-Cavity Targets

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 8:57 AM – Nov. 18, 2008, 9:09 AM

  Authors

  • W. Theobald

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

  • P.M. Nilson

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

  • J.F. Myatt

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

  • B. Eichman

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

  • S. Ivancic

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

  • C. Stoeckl

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

  • C. Ren

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

  • J.A. Delettrez

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

  • J.D. Zuegel

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

  • T.C. Sangster

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

  • V. Ovchinnikov

    • Ohio State University

  • L. Van Woerkom

    • Ohio State University

  • R.R. Freeman

    • Ohio State University

  • R.B. Stephens

    • General Atomics

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• MeV electron generation and transport in ultrathin and thick solids

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 9:09 AM – Nov. 18, 2008, 9:21 AM

  Authors

  • Julien Fuchs

    • LULI, France

  • Patrizio Antici

    • INFM, Italy
    • LULI, France

  • Marco Borghesi

    • Queen's University, UK

  • Emmanuel d'Humi\`eres

    • Centre de Physique Theorique, Ecole Polytechnique, France
    • CPhT, France, U. of Nevada, Reno, USA

  • Laurent Gremillet

    • CEA, France

  • Thomas Grismayer

    • CPhT, France

  • Patrick Mora

    • CPhT, France

  • Erik Lefebvre

    • CEA, France

  • Carlo Cecchetti

    • Queen's University, UK

  • Ana Mancic

    • LULI, France

  • Motoaki Nakatsutsumi

    • LULI, France

  • Ariane Piphal

    • Heinrich-Heine-Universit\"at, Germany

  • Lorenzo Romagnani

    • Queen's University, UK

  • Yasuhiko Sentoku

    • University of Nevada, Reno
    • U. of Nevada, Reno, USA

  • Oswald Willi

    • Heinrich-Heine-Universit\"at, Germany

  • Patrick Audebert

    • LULI, France

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• Generation Mechanisms of Multi-MeV Electrons in Ultra-intense Laser Plasma Interactions and Applications

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 9:21 AM – Nov. 18, 2008, 9:33 AM

  Authors

  • S.C. Wilks

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • LLNL

  • H. Chen

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • W.L. Kruer

    • UC Davis

  • A.J. Kemp

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • P.K. Patel

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • R. Shepherd

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • M. Tabak

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• Energetic Electron Spectra with High Ultraintense Radiation on Thick Targets

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 9:33 AM – Nov. 18, 2008, 9:45 AM

  Authors

  • R.R. Freeman

    • OSU, Columbus, OH

  • D.W. Schumacher

    • OSU, Columbus, OH

  • A. Link

    • OSU, Columbus, OH

  • L.D. Van Woerkom

    • OSU, Columbus, OH

  • H. Chen

    • LLNL, Livermore, CA

  • D.S. Hey

    • LLNL, Livermore, CA

  • M.H. Key

    • LLNL, Livermore, CA

  • S. Le Pape

    • LLNL, Livermore, CA

  • A.J. Mackinnon

    • LLNL, Livermore, CA

  • A.G. MacPhee

    • LLNL, Livermore, CA

  • P.K. Patel

    • LLNL, Livermore, CA

  • Y. Ping

    • LLNL, Livermore, CA

  • T. Bartal

    • UCSD, San Diego, CA

  • T. Ma

    • UCSD, San Diego, CA

  • M.S. Wei

    • UCSD, San Diego, CA

  • F.N. Beg

    • UCSD, San Diego, CA

  • C.D. Chen

    • MIT, Cambridge, MA

  • Y.Y. Tsui

    • UA, Edmonton, Alberta

  • K.U. Akli

    • General Atomics

  • R.B. Stephens

    • General Atomics

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• Characterization of two fast electron populations from the interaction of ultra intense laser and solid target using coherent transition radiation

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 9:45 AM – Nov. 18, 2008, 9:57 AM

  Authors

  • B.I. Cho

    • Texas Center for High Intensity Laser Science, University of Texas at Austin

  • J. Osterholz

    • Institute for Laser and Plasmaphysics, Heinrich-Heine-University, D\"usseldorf, Germany

  • A.C. Bernstein

    • Texas Center for High Intensity Laser Science, University of Texas at Austin

  • G.M. Dyer

    • Texas Center for High Intensity Laser Science, University of Texas at Austin

  • A. Karmakar

    • Institut f\"ur Theoretische Physik I, Heinrich-Heine-Universit\"at, D\"usseldorf, Germany

  • A. Puhkov

    • Institut f\"ur Theoretische Physik I, Heinrich-Heine-Universit\"at, D\"usseldorf, Germany

  • T. Ditmire

    • Texas Center for High Intensity Laser Science, University of Texas at Austin

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• Spectrum of escaping fast electrons in high intensity laser solid target interaction

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 9:57 AM – Nov. 18, 2008, 10:09 AM

  Authors

  • Mingsheng Wei

    • University of California, San Diego
    • UCSD

  • F.N. Beg

    • University of California, San Diego
    • University of California San Diego
    • UC San Diego
    • UCSD
    • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego

  • R.B. Stephens

    • General Atomics
    • GA
    • General Atomics, San Diego

  • T. Yabuuchi

    • UCSD
    • UCSD, USA
    • University of California, San Diego

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• Electron Generation in Fast Ignition Targets

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 10:09 AM – Nov. 18, 2008, 10:21 AM

  Authors

  • R.B. Stephens

    • General Atomics

  • K. Akli

    • General Atomics

  • T. Bartal

    • UCSD

  • F.N. Beg

    • University of California, San Diego
    • University of California San Diego
    • UC San Diego
    • UCSD
    • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego

  • S. Chawla

  • D. Higginson

    • UCSD

  • S. Chen

  • T. Ma

  • B.J. Westover

  • M. Wei

  • T. Yabuuchi

    • UCSD
    • UCSD, USA
    • University of California, San Diego

  • C. Chen

    • MIT

  • H. Chen

  • D.S. Hey

  • M.H. Key

  • S. LePape

  • A.J. MacKinnon

  • A.G. MacPhee

  • P.K. Patel

    • LLNL

  • R.R. Freeman

    • OSU

  • V.M. Ovchinnikov

    • OSU

  • L. Van Woerkom

    • Ohio State U.

  • C. Stoeckl

  • W. Theobald

    • LLE

  • Y. Tsui

    • U. Alberta

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• Isochoric heating of reduced-mass targets in short pulse laser experiments at 0.53 $\mu $m

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 10:21 AM – Nov. 18, 2008, 10:33 AM

  Authors

  • Sophie Baton

    • LULI

  • Patrick Audebert

    • LULI

  • Michel Koenig

    • LULI

  • Frederic Perez

    • LULI

  • Makhlad Chahid

    • LULI

  • Christophe Rousseaux

    • CEA-DIF

  • Laurent Gremillet

    • CEA-DIF

  • Erik Lefebvre

    • CEA-DIF

  • Jenny Rassuchine

    • University of Nevada, Reno

  • Tom Cowan

    • University of Nevada, Reno

  • Sandrine Gaillard

    • University of Nevada, Reno

  • Ronnie Shepperd

    • LLNL

  • Kirk Flippo

    • LANL

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• Enhanced proton emission and hot electron dynamics inside Cu and Au flat-top cone (FTC) targets

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 10:33 AM – Nov. 18, 2008, 10:45 AM

  Authors

  • J. Rassuchine

    • Forschungzentrum Dresden

  • Sandrine Gaillard

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • K.A. Flippo

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • J. Workman

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • D.S. Montgomery

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Brian Albright

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • J.A. Cobble

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • T.E. Cowan

    • Forschungszentrum Dresden
    • Forschungzentrum Dresden

  • J.C. Fernandez

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • D.C. Gautier

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • B.M. Hegelich

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • J.L. Kline

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • S. Letzring

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • L. Yin

    • LANL
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Yasuhiko Sentoku

    • University of Nevada Reno
    • University of Nevada, Reno
    • Univ. of Nevada, Reno

  • N. Vutisalchavakul

    • Ohio Wesleyan University

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• New scaling laws for ion acceleration from the enhanced 200TW Trident laser at LANL

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 10:45 AM – Nov. 18, 2008, 10:57 AM

  Authors

  • K.A. Flippo

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • B. Albright

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • T.E. Cowan

    • Forschungszentrum Dresden
    • Forschungzentrum Dresden

  • J.C. Fernandez

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Sandrine Gaillard

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • D.C. Gautier

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • K. Harres

    • Technical University of Darmstadt

  • B.M. Hegelich

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • A. Henig

    • Maximilian-Ludwig Univeristy

  • R.P. Johnson

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • D. Kiefer

    • Maximilian-Ludwig University

  • J.L. Kline

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • S. Letzring

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • F. Nuernberg

    • Technical University of Darmstadt

  • M. Roth

    • Technical University of Darmstadt

  • J. Rassuchine

    • Forschungszentrum Dresden

  • M. Schollmeier

    • Technical University of Darmstadt

  • R.C. Shah

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • T. Shimada

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • J. Workman

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • L. Yin

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • N. Vutisalchavakul

    • Ohio Wesleyn University

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• Proton Conversion Efficiency Measurements Relevant to Fast Ignition

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 10:57 AM – Nov. 18, 2008, 11:09 AM

  Authors

  • T. Bartal

    • UCSD

  • F.N. Beg

    • University of California, San Diego
    • University of California San Diego
    • UC San Diego
    • UCSD
    • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego

  • S. Chawla

    • UCSD

  • D. Higginson

    • UCSD

  • M.S. Wei

    • UCSD

  • B. Westover

    • University of California San Diego
    • UCSD

  • T. Yabuuchi

    • UCSD
    • UCSD, USA
    • University of California, San Diego

  • M. Foord

    • LLNL

  • D. Hey

    • LLNL

  • M.H. Key

    • LLNL
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • S. LePape

    • LLNL

  • T. Ma

    • University of California San Diego
    • UCSD
    • LLNL

  • A.J. Mackinnon

    • LLNL
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • A.G. MacPhee

    • LLNL

  • P.K. Patel

    • LLNL
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • K.U. Akli

    • General Atomics
    • GA

  • R.B. Stephens

    • General Atomics
    • GA
    • General Atomics, San Diego

  • C.D. Chen

    • MIT

  • R.R. Freeman

    • The Ohio State University
    • The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
    • OSU

  • E. Kemp

    • OSU

  • D. Offermann

    • OSU

  • V.M. Ovchinnikov

    • OSU

  • L. Van Woerkom

    • Physics Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus Oh 43210
    • The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
    • OSU

  • Y.Y. Tsui

    • Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
    • Dept. of Elec. and Computer Engr., Univ. of Alberta
    • Univ of Alberta
    • U of Alberta

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• Improvements to the applicability of laser plasma ion acceleration

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 11:09 AM – Nov. 18, 2008, 11:21 AM

  Authors

  • Christopher D. Murphy

    • The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

  • Rebecca L. Daskalova

    • The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

  • Enam A. Chowdhury

    • The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

  • R.R. Freeman

    • The Ohio State University
    • The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
    • OSU

  • Andrew Krygier

    • The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

  • John Morrison

    • The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

  • L. Van Woerkom

    • Physics Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus Oh 43210
    • The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
    • OSU

  • Anatoly Maksimchuk

    • University of Michigan
    • FOCUS Center and CUOS, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

  • Takeshi Matsuoka

    • University of Michigan
    • FOCUS Center, CUOS, U. of M.
    • FOCUS Center and CUOS, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    • Michigan Univ., USA
    • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

  • Christopher McGuffey

    • University of Michigan
    • FOCUS Center and CUOS, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

  • Karl Krushelnick

    • University of Michigan
    • FOCUS Center and CUOS, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Temperature gradients in solid targets irradiated by high intensity short pulse laser

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 11:21 AM – Nov. 18, 2008, 11:33 AM

  Authors

  • Sophia N. Chen

    • UCSD
    • University of California, San Diego

  • P.K. Patel

    • LLNL
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Hyun-Kung Chung

    • Univ. of California, Berkeley
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Andreas J. Kemp

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • LLNL

  • Sebastien Le Pape

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Brian R. Maddox

    • LLNL
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • S.C. Wilks

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • LLNL

  • F.N. Beg

    • University of California, San Diego
    • University of California San Diego
    • UC San Diego
    • UCSD
    • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego

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• Electron Acceleration from the Interaction of VULCAN 100TW Laser with Au Foils and its Dependence on Laser Polarisation

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 11:33 AM – Nov. 18, 2008, 11:45 AM

  Authors

  • S.R. Nagel

    • Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BZ, U.K.

  • C. Bellei

    • Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BZ, U.K.

  • S. Kneip

    • Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BZ, U.K.

  • S.P.D. Mangles

    • Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BZ, U.K.

  • C. Palmer

    • Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BZ, U.K.

  • L. Willingale

    • Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BZ, U.K.

  • A.E. Dangor

    • Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BZ, U.K.

  • Z. Najmudin

    • Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BZ, U.K.

  • R.J. Clarke

    • CLF, Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxon, U.K.

  • R. Heathcote

    • CLF, Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxon, U.K.

  • A. Henig

    • Max-Planck-Instiut fur Quanten Optik, Garching, Germany

  • J. Schreiber

    • Max-Planck-Instiut fur Quanten Optik, Garching, Germany

  • A. Saevert

    • IOQ, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Germany

  • M. Kaluza

    • IOQ, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Germany

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