Laser-Plasma Acceleration

Presentations

• Frequency domain tomography of evolving laser-plasma accelerator structures

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 1:00 PM – Nov. 18, 2008, 1:12 PM

  Authors

  • Peng Dong

  • Stephen Reed

  • Serguei Kalmykov

  • Gennady Shvets

  • Mike Downer

    • Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin

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• Direct measurements of pulse-front steepening and erosion in a laser wakefield accelerator at laser powers up to 150 TW

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 1:12 PM – Nov. 18, 2008, 1:24 PM

  Authors

  • S.P.D. Mangles

    • Imperial College London

  • J. Schreiber

    • Imperial College London

  • C. Bellei

    • Imperial College London

  • S. Kneip

    • Imperial College London

  • S.R. Nagel

    • Imperial College London

  • C.A.J. Palmer

    • Imperial College London

  • Z. Najmdudin

    • Imperial College London

  • T. Ibbotson

    • University of Oxford

  • N. Bourgeois

    • University of Oxford

  • S. Hooker

    • University of Oxford

  • M. Streeter

    • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

  • D.R. Symes

    • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

  • P.P. Rajeev

    • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

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• Study of Pre-Pulse Effect on Generation of Quasi-Monoenergetic Electrons in Gas jets

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 1:24 PM – Nov. 18, 2008, 1:36 PM

  Authors

  • J.A. Chakera

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

  • 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

  • N. Vafaei-Najafabadi

    • Dept. of Elec. and Computer Engr., Univ. of Alberta

  • A. Ali

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

  • R. Fedosejevs

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

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• Observation of large-angle quasi-monoenergetic electrons from a laser wakefield

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 1:36 PM – Nov. 18, 2008, 1:48 PM

  Authors

  • Dmitri Kaganovich

    • Naval Research Laboratory

  • Daniel Gordon

    • Naval Research Laboratory

  • Antonio Ting

    • Naval Research Laboratory

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• Near GeV Laser Electron Beam Accelerator and Synchrotron Source

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 1:48 PM – Nov. 18, 2008, 2:00 PM

  Authors

  • S. Kneip

    • The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London SW7 2AZ, UK

  • S.R. Nagel

    • The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London SW7 2AZ, UK

  • C. Bellei

    • The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London SW7 2AZ, UK

  • C. Palmer

    • The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London SW7 2AZ, UK

  • J. Schreiber

    • The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London SW7 2AZ, UK

  • S.P.D. Mangles

    • The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London SW7 2AZ, UK

  • Z. Najmudin

    • The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London SW7 2AZ, UK

  • T. Ibbotson

    • University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, UK

  • N. Bourgeois

    • University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, UK

  • S. Hooker

    • University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, UK

  • K. Ta Phuoc

    • LOA, Ecole Polytechnique, France

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• Injection of electrons into a laser wakefield accelerator driven in a capillary discharge waveguide using an embedded gas jet

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 2:00 PM – Nov. 18, 2008, 2:12 PM

  Authors

  • Anthony Gonsalves

    • LBNL
    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Dmitriy Panasenko

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Kei Nakamura

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Chen Lin

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Eamonn Monaghan

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Csaba Toth

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Cameron Geddes

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Carl Schroeder

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Eric Esarey

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Wim Leemans

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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• Staging laser plasma accelerator using plasma mirrors

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 2:12 PM – Nov. 18, 2008, 2:24 PM

  Authors

  • Dmitriy Panasenko

    • LBNL
    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Anthony J. Gonsalves

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Kei Nakamura

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Anthony J. Shu

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Chen Lin

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Nicholas Matlis

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Guillaume Plateau

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Cameron Geddes

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Csaba Toth

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Eric Esarey

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Carl Schroeder

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Wim Leemans

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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• The Interaction of an Ultra-short Laser Pulse and Relativistic Electron Beam in a Corrugated Plasma Channel

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 2:24 PM – Nov. 18, 2008, 2:36 PM

  Authors

  • Thomas Antonsen

    • IREAP, University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland

  • J.P. Palastro

    • LLNL
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • IREAP, University of Maryland

  • L. Divol

    • LLNL
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• Proton acceleration from near critical density and underdense plasmas using ultra-intense laser pulses

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 2:36 PM – Nov. 18, 2008, 2:48 PM

  Authors

  • Stepan Bulanov

    • University of Michigan

  • Vladimir Chvykov

    • University of Michigan

  • Galina Kalinchenko

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

  • 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

  • Pascal Rousseau

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

  • Victor Yanovsky

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

  • Karl Krushelnick

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

  • Dale Litzenberg

    • University of Michigan

  • Anatoly Maksimchuk

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

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• Towards GeV laser-driven ion acceleration

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 2:48 PM – Nov. 18, 2008, 3:00 PM

  Authors

  • B.M. Hegelich

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • L. Yin

    • LANL
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Brian Albright

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • K.A. Flippo

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • D.C. Gautier

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • R.P. Johnson

  • S. Letzring

  • R.C. Shah

  • T. Shimada

  • J.C. Fernandez

    • Los Alamos National Lab.

  • A. Henig

  • D. Kiefer

  • V. Liechtenstein

  • J. Schreiber

  • D. Habs

    • Ludwig Maximilian Univ. Munich

  • J. Meyer-ter-Vehn

  • S. Rykovanov

  • H.C. Wu

    • Max Planck Inst. Quantum Optics Garching

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• Multi-stage laser ion acceleration

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 3:00 PM – Nov. 18, 2008, 3:12 PM

  Authors

  • Jens Polz

    • Institut fuer Optik und Quantenelektronik, Jena, Germany

  • Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer

    • Institut fuer Optik und Quantenelektronik, Jena, Germany

  • Oliver Jaeckel

    • Institut fuer Optik und Quantenelektronik, Jena, Germany

  • Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt

    • Institut fuer Optik und Quantenelektronik, Jena, Germany

  • Jens Heymann

    • Institut fuer Optik und Quantenelektronik, Jena, Germany

  • Malte C. Kaluza

    • Institut fuer Optik und Quantenelektronik, Jena, Germany

  • Sven Steinke

    • Max-Born-Institut, Berlin, Germany

  • Alex P.L. Robinson

    • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, UK

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• Quantum beam generations via the laser-cluster interactions

  ORAL

  Nov. 18, 2008, 3:12 PM – Nov. 18, 2008, 3:24 PM

  Authors

  • Yuji Fukuda

    • Japan Atomic Energy Agency

  • Anatoly Faenov

  • Tania Pikuz

  • Motonobu Tampo

  • Akifumi Yogo

  • Masaki Kando

  • Yukio Hayashi

  • Takeshi Kameshima

  • Takayuki Homma

  • Alexander Pirozhkov

  • Yoshiaki Kato

  • Toshiki Tajima

  • Hiroyuki Daido

  • Sergei Bulanov

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