Publications
Publications
Advanced polarization-control strategies for enhancing performance in multipetawatt laser facilities
Our research focuses on designing all-reflective phase retarders (RPRs) to generate and maintain circularly polarized (CP) light for NSF OPAL and other multipetawatt laser facilities.
Nucleosynthesis with tritium
This paper reports on the possible role of tritium-induced reactions of light nuclei, which may influence nucleosynthesis in short-lived environments such as the third minute of the Big Bang.
Testing strong-field QED with the avalanche precursor
A two-beam high-power laser facility is essential for the study of one of the most captivating phenomena predicted by strong-field quantum electrodynamics (QED) and yet unobserved experimentally: the avalanche-type cascade.
Roadmap for Warm Dense Matter Physics
This roadmap presents the state-of-the-art, current challenges and near future developments anticipated in the thriving field of warm dense matter physics.
Ponderomotive-expulsion: toward creating an electron-free volume
We describe a demonstration of a proof of concept to clear the laser focal volume of free electrons and disable their atomic and molecular sources.
Path to a Single-Stage 100-GeV-Electron Beam via a Flying-Focus-Driven Laser Plasma Accelerator
Dephasingless laser wakefield acceleration (DLWFA), a novel laser wakefield acceleration concept based on the recently demonstrated “flying focus” technology, offers a new paradigm in laser-plasma acceleration that could advance the progress toward a TeV linear accelerator using a single-stage system without guiding structures.
On Measuring Stimulated Photon-photon Scattering using Multiple Ultraintense Lasers
Stimulated photon–photon scattering is a predicted consequence of quantum electrodynamics that has yet to be measured directly.
Enhanced Quantum Radiation with Flying-Focus Laser Pulses
The emission of a photon by an electron in an intense laser field is one of the most fundamental processes in electrodynamics and underlies the many applications that utilize high-energy photon beams.
Development of a broadband reflective phase retarder to generate circularly polarized light for MTW-OPAL and multipetawatt lasers
Our research focuses on designing metallic coatings to create broadband all-reflective phase retarders that generate circularly polarized (CP) light for the MTW-OPAL Laser System while ensuring the desired polarization state on the target.
Signatures of vacuum birefringence in low‐power flying focus pulses
Vacuum birefringence produces a differential phase between orthogonally polarized components of a weak electromagnetic probe in the presence of a strong electromagnetic field.
Ultrabroadband flying focus using an axiparabola echelon pair
Flying-focus pulses promise to revolutionize laser-driven secondary sources by decoupling the trajectory of the peak intensity from the native group velocity of the medium over distances much longer than a Rayleigh range.
Programmable‐trajectory ultrafast flying focus pulses
“Flying focus” techniques produce laser pulses with dynamic focal points that travel distances much greater than a Rayleigh length.
Dephasingless laser wakefield acceleration in the bubble regime
Laser wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) produce extremely high gradients enabling compact accelerators and radiation sources but face design limitations, such as dephasing, occurring when trapped electrons outrun the accelerating phase of the wakefield.