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Laser Experiments

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A none exhaustive list of the laser experiments simulated using VPIC

Long pulse laser-plasma interaction for ICF (Trident, Jupiter, Omega and NIF lasers):

JL Kline, DS Montgomery, L Yin, DF DuBois, BJ Albright, B Bezzerides, JA Cobble, ES Dodd, DF DuBois, JC Fernández, RP Johnson, JM Kindel, HA Rose, HX Vu, W Daughton, "Different k lambda-Debye regimes for nonlinear effects on Langmuir waves,” Physics of Plasmas 13, 055906 (2006).

DS Montgomery, Brian James Albright, DH Barnak, Po-Yu Chang, JR Davies, G Fiksel, DH Froula, JL Kline, MJ MacDonald, AB Sefkow, L Yin, R Betti, "Use of external magnetic fields in hohlraum plasmas to improve laser-coupling,” Physics of Plasmas 22, 010703 (2015).

RK Kirkwood, P Michel, R London, JD Moody, E Dewald, L Yin, J Kline, D Hinkel, D Callahan, N Meezan, E Williams, L Divol, BL Albright, KJ Bowers, E Bond, H Rose, Y Ping, TL Wang, C Joshi, W Seka, NJ Fisch, D Turnbull, S Suckewer, JS Wurtele, S Glenzer, L Suter, C Haynam, O Landen, BJ Macgowan, "Multi-beam effects on backscatter and its saturation in experiments with conditions relevant to ignition,” Physics of Plasmas 18, 056311 (2011).

RK Kirkwood, Y Ping, SC Wilks, N Meezan, P Michel, E Williams, D Clark, L Suter, O Landen, Nathaniel J Fisch, EJ Valeo, V Malkin, D Turnbull, S Suckewer, J Wurtele, TL Wang, SF Martins, C Joshi, L Yin, BJ Albright, HA Rose, KJ Bowers, "Observation of amplification of light by Langmuir waves and its saturation on the electron kinetic timescale,” Journal of Plasma Physics 77, 521 (2011).

John L Kline, David S Montgomery, C Rousseaux, SD Baton, V Tassin, RA Hardin, KA Flippo, RP Johnson, T Shimada, L Yin, BJ Albright, HA Rose, F Amiranoff, "Investigation of stimulated Raman scattering using a short-pulse diffraction limited laser beam near the instability threshold,” Laser and Particle Beams 27, 185 (2009).

JL Kline, DS Montgomery, L Yin, RA Hardin, KA Flippo, T Shimada, RP Johnson, HA Rose, BJ Albright, "Investigation of laser plasma instabilities using picosecond laser pulses,” Journal of Physics: Conference Series 112, 002042 (2008).

Short pulse laser-plasma interaction for ion acceleration, radiation sources, and fast ignition (Trident, LULI, Texas Petawatt):

Andreas Henig, Daniel Kiefer, K Markey, DC Gautier, KA Flippo, S Letzring, RP Johnson, T Shimada, L Yin, BJ Albright, KJ Bowers, JC Fernández, Sergey G Rykovanov, H-C Wu, M Zepf, Daniel Jung, V Kh Liechtenstein, Joerg Schreiber, Dietrich Habs, BM Hegelich, "Enhanced laser-driven ion acceleration in the relativistic transparency regime,” Physical Review Letters 103, 045002 (2009)

Sasi Palaniyappan, B Manuel Hegelich, Hui-Chun Wu, Daniel Jung, Donald C Gautier, Lin Yin, Brian J Albright, Randall P Johnson, Tsutomu Shimada, Samuel Letzring, Dustin T Offermann, Jun Ren, Chengkun Huang, Rainer Hörlein, Brendan Dromey, Juan C Fernandez, Rahul C Shah, "Dynamics of relativistic transparency and optical shuttering in expanding overdose plasmas,” Nature Physics 8, 763 (2012).

Juan C Fernández, JJ Honrubia, Brian J Albright, Kirk A Flippo, D Cort Gautier, Björn M Hegelich, Mark J Schmitt, M Temporal, Lin Yin, "Progress and prospects of ion-driven fast ignition,” Nuclear Fusion 49, 065004 (2009).

D Jung, L Yin, BJ Albright, DC Gautier, S Letzring, B Dromey, M Yeung, Rainer Hörlein, R Shah, S Palaniyappan, K Allinger, Jörg Schreiber, KJ Bowers, HC Wu, JC Fernandez, Dietrich Habs, BM Hegeloch, "Efficient carbon ion beam generation from laser-driven volume acceleration,” New Journal of Physics 15, 023007 (2013).

Daniel Jung, L Yin, BJ Albright, DC Gautier, Rainer Hörlein, Daniel Kiefer, Andreas Henig, R Johnson, S Letzring, S Palaniyappan, R Shah, T Shimada, XQ Yan, KJ Bowers, T Tajima, JC Fernández, Dietrich Habs, BM Hegelich, "Monoenergetic ion beam generation by driving ion solitary waves with circularly polarized laser light," Physical Review Letters 107, 115002 (2011)

K Flippo, BM Hegelich, BJ Albright, L Yin, DC Gautier, S Letzring, M Schollmeier, J Schreiber, R Schulze, JC Fernandez, "Laser-driven ion accelerators: Spectral control, monoenergetic ions and new acceleration mechanisms,” Laser and Paticle Beams, 25, 3 (2007).

JC Fernández, BJ Albright, Farhat N Beg, Mark E Foord, Bjorn Manuel Hegelich, JJ Honrubia, M Roth, Richard B Stephens, L Yin, "Fast ignition with laser-driven proton and ion beams,” Nuclear Fusion 54, 054006 (2014).

BM Hegelich, I Pomerantz, L Yin, HC Wu, Daniel Jung, BJ Albright, DC Gautier, S Letzring, S Palaniyappan, R Shah, K Allinger, Rainer Hörlein, Jörg Schreiber, Dietrich Habs, J Blakeney, Gilliss Dyer, L Fuller, Erhard Gaul, E Mccary, AR Meadows, C Wang, Todd Ditmire, JC Fernandez, "Laser-driven ion acceleration from relativistically transparent nano targets,” New Journal of Physics, 15, 085015 (2013).

BM Hegelich, D Jung, BJ Albright, JC Fernandez, DC Gautier, C Huang, TJ Kwan, S Letzring, S Palaniyappan, RC Shah, H-C Wu, L Yin, A Henig, R Hörlein, D Kiefer, J Schreiber, XQ Yan, T Tajima, D Habs, B Dromey, JJ Honrubia, "Experimental demonstration of particle energy, conversion efficiency and spectral shape required for ion-based fast ignition,” Nuclear Fusion 083011 (2011).

Daniel Jung, L Yin, DC Gautier, H-C Wu, S Letzring, B Dromey, R Shah, S Palaniyappan, T Shimada, RP Johnson, Jörg Schreiber, Dietrich Habs, JC Fernández, BM Hegelich, BJ Albright, "Laser-driven 1 GeV carbon ions from preheated diamond targets in the break-out afterburner regime,” Physics of Plasmas 20, 083103 (2013).

D Jung, BJ Albright, L Yin, DC Gautier, R Shah, S Palaniyappan, S Letzring, B Dromey, HC Wu, T Shimada, RP Johnson, M Roth, JC Fernandez, D Habs, BM Hegelich, "Beam profiles of proton and carbon ions in the relativistic transparency regime,” New Journal of Physics 16, 123035 (2013).

Juan C Fernández, Brian J Albright, Kirk A Flippo, Björn M Hegelich, Thomas J Kwan, Mark J Schmitt, Lin Yin, “Progress on ion based fast ignition,” Journal of Physics: Conference Series 112, 022051 (2008).

Juan C Fernández, D Cort Gautier, Chengkung Huang, Sasikumar Palaniyappan, Brian J Albright, Woosuk Bang, Gilliss Dyer, Andrea Favalli, James F Hunter, Jacob Mendez, Markus Roth, Martyn Swinhoe, Paul A Bradley, Oliver Deppert, Michelle Espy, Katerina Falk, Nevzat Guler, Christopher Hamilton, Bjorn Manuel Hegelich, Daniela Henzlova, Kiril D Ianakiev, Metodi Iliev, Randall P Johnson, Annika Kleinschmidt, Adrian S Losko, Edward McCary, Michal Mocko, Ronald O Nelson, Rebecca Roycroft, Miguel A Santiago Cordoba, Victor A Schanz, Gabriel Schaumann, Derek W Schmidt, Adam Sefkow, Tsutomu Shimada, Terry N Taddeucci, Alexandra Tebartz, Sven C Vogel, Erik Vold, Glen A Wurden, Lin Yin, "Laser-plasmas in the relativistic-transparency regime: Science and applications,” Physics of Plasmas 24, 056702 (2017).

BM Hegelich, D Jung, BJ Albright, M Cheung, B Dromey, DC Gautier, C Hamilton, S Letzring, R Munchhausen, S Palaniyappan, R Shah, H-C Wu, L Yin, JC Fernández, "160 MeV laser-accelerated protons from CH2 nano-targets for proton cancer therapy,” arXiv:1310.8659 (2013).

D Jung, BJ Albright, L Yin, DC Gautier, B Dromey, R Shah, S Palaniyappan, S Letzring, H-C Wu, T Shimada, RP Johnson, D Habs, M Roth, JC Fernández, BM Hegelich, "Scaling of ion energies in the relativistic-induced transparency regime,” Laser and Particle Beams 33, 695 (2015).

Sasi Palaniyappan, Chengkun Huang, Donald C. Gautier, Christopher E. Hamilton, Miguel A. Santiago, Christian Kreuzer, Adam B. Sefkow, Rahul C. Shah & Juan C. Fernández, “Efficient quasi-monoenergetic ion beams from laser-driven relativistic plasmas,” Nature Communications 6, 10170 (2015).