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Yao W, Higginson A, Marquès JR, Antici P, Béard J, Burdonov K, Borghesi M, Castan A, Ciardi A, Coleman B, Chen SN, d'Humières E, Gangolf T, Gremillet L, Khiar B, Lancia L, Loiseau P, Ribeyre X, Soloviev A, Starodubtsev M, Wang Q, Fuchs J. Dynamics of Nanosecond Laser Pulse Propagation and of Associated Instabilities in a Magnetized Underdense Plasma. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 130:265101. [PMID: 37450828 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.265101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2022] [Revised: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
Abstract
The propagation and energy coupling of intense laser beams in plasmas are critical issues in inertial confinement fusion. Applying magnetic fields to such a setup has been shown to enhance fuel confinement and heating. Here we report on experimental measurements demonstrating improved transmission and increased smoothing of a high-power laser beam propagating in a magnetized underdense plasma. We also measure enhanced backscattering, which our kinetic simulations show is due to magnetic confinement of hot electrons, thus leading to reduced target preheating.
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- W Yao
- LULI-CNRS, CEA, UPMC Univ Paris 06: Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris-F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
- Sorbonne Université, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, LERMA, F-75005, Paris, France
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- Center for Energy Research, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0417, USA
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- LULI-CNRS, CEA, UPMC Univ Paris 06: Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris-F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
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- INRS-EMT, 1650 boul, Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, QC, J3X 1S2, Canada
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- CNRS, LNCMI, Univ Toulouse 3, INSA Toulouse, Univ Grenoble Alpes, EMFL, 31400 Toulouse, France
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- LULI-CNRS, CEA, UPMC Univ Paris 06: Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris-F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
- Sorbonne Université, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, LERMA, F-75005, Paris, France
- JIHT, Russian Academy of Sciences, 125412, Moscow, Russia
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, The Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
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- LULI-CNRS, CEA, UPMC Univ Paris 06: Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris-F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
- CEA, DAM, DIF, F-91297 Arpajon, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, LERMA, F-75005, Paris, France
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, The Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
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- "Horia Hulubei" National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, RO-077125 Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
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- University of Bordeaux, CELIA, CNRS, CEA, UMR 5107, F-33405 Talence, France
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- LULI-CNRS, CEA, UPMC Univ Paris 06: Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris-F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
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- CEA, DAM, DIF, F-91297 Arpajon, France
- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, LMCE, 91680 Bruyères-le-Châtel, France
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- Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), Palaiseau 91123, France
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- LULI-CNRS, CEA, UPMC Univ Paris 06: Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris-F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
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- CEA, DAM, DIF, F-91297 Arpajon, France
- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, LMCE, 91680 Bruyères-le-Châtel, France
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- University of Bordeaux, CELIA, CNRS, CEA, UMR 5107, F-33405 Talence, France
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, 9211 116 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada
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- LULI-CNRS, CEA, UPMC Univ Paris 06: Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris-F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
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Revet G, Khiar B, Filippov E, Argiroffi C, Béard J, Bonito R, Cerchez M, Chen SN, Gangolf T, Higginson DP, Mignone A, Olmi B, Ouillé M, Ryazantsev SN, Skobelev IY, Safronova MI, Starodubtsev M, Vinci T, Willi O, Pikuz S, Orlando S, Ciardi A, Fuchs J. Laboratory disruption of scaled astrophysical outflows by a misaligned magnetic field. Nat Commun 2021; 12:762. [PMID: 33536408 PMCID: PMC7858631 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-20917-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2020] [Accepted: 12/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
The shaping of astrophysical outflows into bright, dense, and collimated jets due to magnetic pressure is here investigated using laboratory experiments. Here we look at the impact on jet collimation of a misalignment between the outflow, as it stems from the source, and the magnetic field. For small misalignments, a magnetic nozzle forms and redirects the outflow in a collimated jet. For growing misalignments, this nozzle becomes increasingly asymmetric, disrupting jet formation. Our results thus suggest outflow/magnetic field misalignment to be a plausible key process regulating jet collimation in a variety of objects from our Sun’s outflows to extragalatic jets. Furthermore, they provide a possible interpretation for the observed structuring of astrophysical jets. Jet modulation could be interpreted as the signature of changes over time in the outflow/ambient field angle, and the change in the direction of the jet could be the signature of changes in the direction of the ambient field. Mass outflow is a common process in astrophysical objects. Here the authors investigate in which conditions an astrophysically-scaled laser-produced plasma flow can be collimated and evolves in the presence of a misaligned external magnetic field.
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- G Revet
- Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.,LULI, CNRS, CEA, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France.,Centre Laser Intenses et Applications, Université de Bordeaux-CNRS-CEA, Talence, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, LERMA, Paris, France.,Flash Center for Computational Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
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- Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.,Joint Institute for High Temperatures RAS, Moscow, Russia
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Universitá di Palermo, Palermo, Italy.,INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- LNCMI, UPR 3228, CNRS-UGA-UPS-INSA, Toulouse, France
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- INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Institut für Laser und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.,ELI-NP, Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
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- LULI, CNRS, CEA, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France.,Institut für Laser und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- LULI, CNRS, CEA, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France.,Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
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- Dip. di Fisica, Universiá di Torino, Torino, Italy
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- INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Palermo, Italy.,INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy
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- LULI, CNRS, CEA, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France
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- Joint Institute for High Temperatures RAS, Moscow, Russia.,National Research Nuclear University 'MEPhI', Moscow, Russia
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- Joint Institute for High Temperatures RAS, Moscow, Russia.,National Research Nuclear University 'MEPhI', Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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- Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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- LULI, CNRS, CEA, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France
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- Institut für Laser und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Joint Institute for High Temperatures RAS, Moscow, Russia.,National Research Nuclear University 'MEPhI', Moscow, Russia
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- INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Sorbonne Université, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, LERMA, Paris, France.
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- Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. .,LULI, CNRS, CEA, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France.
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Khiar B, Revet G, Ciardi A, Burdonov K, Filippov E, Béard J, Cerchez M, Chen SN, Gangolf T, Makarov SS, Ouillé M, Safronova M, Skobelev IY, Soloviev A, Starodubtsev M, Willi O, Pikuz S, Fuchs J. Laser-Produced Magnetic-Rayleigh-Taylor Unstable Plasma Slabs in a 20 T Magnetic Field. Phys Rev Lett 2019; 123:205001. [PMID: 31809120 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.205001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2019] [Revised: 10/02/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
Magnetized laser-produced plasmas are central to many novel laboratory astrophysics and inertial confinement fusion studies, as well as in industrial applications. Here we provide the first complete description of the three-dimensional dynamics of a laser-driven plasma plume expanding in a 20 T transverse magnetic field. The plasma is collimated by the magnetic field into a slender, rapidly elongating slab, whose plasma-vacuum interface is unstable to the growth of the "classical," fluidlike magnetized Rayleigh-Taylor instability.
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- B Khiar
- Sorbonne Université, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, LERMA, CNRS UMR 8112, F-75005 Paris, France
- Flash Center for Computational Science, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- LULI - CNRS, CEA, Sorbonne Université, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris - F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
- Institute of Applied Physics, RAS, 46 Ulyanov Street, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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- Sorbonne Université, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, LERMA, CNRS UMR 8112, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, LERMA, CNRS UMR 8112, F-75005 Paris, France
- LULI - CNRS, CEA, Sorbonne Université, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris - F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
- Institute of Applied Physics, RAS, 46 Ulyanov Street, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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- Institute of Applied Physics, RAS, 46 Ulyanov Street, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Joint Institute for High Temperatures, RAS, 125412 Moscow, Russia
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- LNCMI, UPR 3228, CNRS-UGA-UPS-INSA, 31400 Toulouse, France
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- Institute for Laser and Plasma Physics, University of Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- ELI-NP, "Horia Hulubei" National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, 30 Reactorului Street, RO-077125 Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
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- LULI - CNRS, CEA, Sorbonne Université, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris - F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
- Institute for Laser and Plasma Physics, University of Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Joint Institute for High Temperatures, RAS, 125412 Moscow, Russia
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- LULI - CNRS, CEA, Sorbonne Université, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris - F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
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- LULI - CNRS, CEA, Sorbonne Université, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris - F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
- Institute of Applied Physics, RAS, 46 Ulyanov Street, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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- Joint Institute for High Temperatures, RAS, 125412 Moscow, Russia
- National Research Nuclear University, MEPhI, 115409 Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Applied Physics, RAS, 46 Ulyanov Street, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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- Institute of Applied Physics, RAS, 46 Ulyanov Street, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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- Institute for Laser and Plasma Physics, University of Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Joint Institute for High Temperatures, RAS, 125412 Moscow, Russia
- National Research Nuclear University, MEPhI, 115409 Moscow, Russia
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- LULI - CNRS, CEA, Sorbonne Université, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris - F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
- Institute of Applied Physics, RAS, 46 Ulyanov Street, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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Barberio M, Scisciò M, Vallières S, Cardelli F, Chen SN, Famulari G, Gangolf T, Revet G, Schiavi A, Senzacqua M, Antici P. Publisher Correction: Laser-accelerated particle beams for stress testing of materials. Nat Commun 2018; 9:1966. [PMID: 29760387 PMCID: PMC5951948 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04345-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Chen SN, Atzeni S, Gangolf T, Gauthier M, Higginson DP, Hua R, Kim J, Mangia F, McGuffey C, Marquès JR, Riquier R, Pépin H, Shepherd R, Willi O, Beg FN, Deutsch C, Fuchs J. Experimental evidence for the enhanced and reduced stopping regimes for protons propagating through hot plasmas. Sci Rep 2018; 8:14586. [PMID: 30275488 PMCID: PMC6167377 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32726-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2018] [Accepted: 08/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Our understanding of the dynamics of ion collisional energy loss in a plasma is still not complete, in part due to the difficulty and lack of high-quality experimental measurements. These measurements are crucial to benchmark existing models. Here, we show that such a measurement is possible using high-flux proton beams accelerated by high intensity short pulse lasers, where there is a high number of particles in a picosecond pulse, which is ideal for measurements in quickly expanding plasmas. By reducing the energy bandwidth of the protons using a passive selector, we have made proton stopping measurements in partially ionized Argon and fully ionized Hydrogen plasmas with electron temperatures of hundreds of eV and densities in the range 1020-1021 cm-3. In the first case, we have observed, consistently with previous reports, enhanced stopping of protons when compared to stopping power in non-ionized gas. In the second case, we have observed for the first time the regime of reduced stopping, which is theoretically predicted in such hot and fully ionized plasma. The versatility of these tunable short-pulse laser based ion sources, where the ion type and energy can be changed at will, could open up the possibility for a variety of ion stopping power measurements in plasmas so long as they are well characterized in terms of temperature and density. In turn, these measurements will allow tests of the validity of existing theoretical models.
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- S N Chen
- LULI-CNRS, CEA, École Polytechnique, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne Univ., UPMC Univ. Paris 06, F-91128, Palaiseau cedex, France.
- Institute of Applied Physics, 46 Ulyanov Street, 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
- Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics/Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, 077125, Romania.
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- Dipartimento SBAI, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy
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- LULI-CNRS, CEA, École Polytechnique, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne Univ., UPMC Univ. Paris 06, F-91128, Palaiseau cedex, France
- ILPP, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- LULI-CNRS, CEA, École Polytechnique, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne Univ., UPMC Univ. Paris 06, F-91128, Palaiseau cedex, France
- High Energy Density Sciences Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- LULI-CNRS, CEA, École Polytechnique, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne Univ., UPMC Univ. Paris 06, F-91128, Palaiseau cedex, France
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Center for Energy Research, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0417, USA
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- Center for Energy Research, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0417, USA
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- Dipartimento SBAI, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy
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- Center for Energy Research, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0417, USA
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- LULI-CNRS, CEA, École Polytechnique, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne Univ., UPMC Univ. Paris 06, F-91128, Palaiseau cedex, France
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- LULI-CNRS, CEA, École Polytechnique, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne Univ., UPMC Univ. Paris 06, F-91128, Palaiseau cedex, France
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- INRS-EMT, Varennes, Québec, Canada
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- ILPP, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Center for Energy Research, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0417, USA
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- LPGP-Univ. Paris-Sud, (UMR-CNRS 8578), Orsay, France
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- LULI-CNRS, CEA, École Polytechnique, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne Univ., UPMC Univ. Paris 06, F-91128, Palaiseau cedex, France
- Institute of Applied Physics, 46 Ulyanov Street, 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics/Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, 077125, Romania
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Barberio M, Scisciò M, Vallières S, Cardelli F, Chen SN, Famulari G, Gangolf T, Revet G, Schiavi A, Senzacqua M, Antici P. Laser-accelerated particle beams for stress testing of materials. Nat Commun 2018; 9:372. [PMID: 29371647 PMCID: PMC5785512 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02675-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2017] [Accepted: 12/18/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Laser-driven particle acceleration, obtained by irradiation of a solid target using an ultra-intense (I > 1018 W/cm2) short-pulse (duration <1 ps) laser, is a growing field of interest, in particular for its manifold potential applications in different domains. Here, we provide experimental evidence that laser-generated particles, in particular protons, can be used for stress testing materials and are particularly suited for identifying materials to be used in harsh conditions. We show that these laser-generated protons can produce, in a very short time scale, a strong mechanical and thermal damage, that, given the short irradiation time, does not allow for recovery of the material. We confirm this by analyzing changes in the mechanical, optical, electrical, and morphological properties of five materials of interest to be used in harsh conditions. Recently, there has been significant progress on the application of laser-generated proton beams in material science. Here the authors demonstrate the benefit of employing such beams in stress testing different materials by examining their mechanical, optical, electrical, and morphological properties.
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- M Barberio
- INRS-EMT, 1650 Boul. Lionel Boulet, Varennes, QC, Canada
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- INRS-EMT, 1650 Boul. Lionel Boulet, Varennes, QC, Canada.,University of Rome "La Sapienza", Dip. SBAI and INFN, Via A. Scarpa 16, 00161, Roma, Italy
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- INRS-EMT, 1650 Boul. Lionel Boulet, Varennes, QC, Canada
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- INRS-EMT, 1650 Boul. Lionel Boulet, Varennes, QC, Canada.,University of Rome "La Sapienza", Dip. SBAI and INFN, Via A. Scarpa 16, 00161, Roma, Italy
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- LULI, Ecole Polytechnique, Route de Saclay, 91128, Palaiseau, France.,Institute of Applied Physics, 46 Ulyanov Street, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 603950
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- Medical Physics Unit, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- LULI, Ecole Polytechnique, Route de Saclay, 91128, Palaiseau, France
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- LULI, Ecole Polytechnique, Route de Saclay, 91128, Palaiseau, France.,Institute of Applied Physics, 46 Ulyanov Street, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 603950
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- University of Rome "La Sapienza", Dip. SBAI and INFN, Via A. Scarpa 16, 00161, Roma, Italy
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- University of Rome "La Sapienza", Dip. SBAI and INFN, Via A. Scarpa 16, 00161, Roma, Italy
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- INRS-EMT, 1650 Boul. Lionel Boulet, Varennes, QC, Canada.
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Chen SN, Vranic M, Gangolf T, Boella E, Antici P, Bailly-Grandvaux M, Loiseau P, Pépin H, Revet G, Santos JJ, Schroer AM, Starodubtsev M, Willi O, Silva LO, d'Humières E, Fuchs J. Collimated protons accelerated from an overdense gas jet irradiated by a 1 µm wavelength high-intensity short-pulse laser. Sci Rep 2017; 7:13505. [PMID: 29044204 PMCID: PMC5647424 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-12910-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2017] [Accepted: 09/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
We have investigated proton acceleration in the forward direction from a near-critical density hydrogen gas jet target irradiated by a high intensity (1018 W/cm2), short-pulse (5 ps) laser with wavelength of 1.054 μm. We observed the signature of the Collisionless Shock Acceleration mechanism, namely quasi-monoenergetic proton beams with small divergence in addition to the more commonly observed electron-sheath driven proton acceleration. The proton energies we obtained were modest (~MeV), but prospects for improvement are offered through further tailoring the gas jet density profile. Also, we observed that this mechanism is very robust in producing those beams and thus can be considered as a future candidate in laser-driven ion sources driven by the upcoming next generation of multi-PW near-infrared lasers.
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- S N Chen
- LULI - CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA: Université Paris-Saclay; UPMC Univ Paris 06: Sorbonne Universités, F-91128, Palaiseau cedex, France. .,Institute of Applied Physics, 46 Ulyanov Street, 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. .,Light Stream Labs LLC., Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
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- GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal
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- LULI - CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA: Université Paris-Saclay; UPMC Univ Paris 06: Sorbonne Universités, F-91128, Palaiseau cedex, France.,Institut für Laser- und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal
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- INRS-EMT, 1650, boulevard Lionel-Boulet, J3X 1S2, Varennes (Québec), Canada
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- Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, CEA, CELIA (Centre Laser Intenses et Applications), UMR 5107, F-33405, Talence, France
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- CEA, DAM, DIF, F-91297, Arpajon, France
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- INRS-EMT, 1650, boulevard Lionel-Boulet, J3X 1S2, Varennes (Québec), Canada
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- LULI - CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA: Université Paris-Saclay; UPMC Univ Paris 06: Sorbonne Universités, F-91128, Palaiseau cedex, France.,Institute of Applied Physics, 46 Ulyanov Street, 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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- Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, CEA, CELIA (Centre Laser Intenses et Applications), UMR 5107, F-33405, Talence, France
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- Institut für Laser- und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Physics, 46 Ulyanov Street, 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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- Institut für Laser- und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, CEA, CELIA (Centre Laser Intenses et Applications), UMR 5107, F-33405, Talence, France
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- LULI - CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA: Université Paris-Saclay; UPMC Univ Paris 06: Sorbonne Universités, F-91128, Palaiseau cedex, France.,Institute of Applied Physics, 46 Ulyanov Street, 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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Lancia L, Giribono A, Vassura L, Chiaramello M, Riconda C, Weber S, Castan A, Chatelain A, Frank A, Gangolf T, Quinn MN, Fuchs J, Marquès JR. Signatures of the Self-Similar Regime of Strongly Coupled Stimulated Brillouin Scattering for Efficient Short Laser Pulse Amplification. Phys Rev Lett 2016; 116:075001. [PMID: 26943539 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.116.075001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
Abstract
Plasma-based laser amplification is considered as a possible way to overcome the technological limits of present day laser systems and achieve exawatt laser pulses. Efficient amplification of a picosecond laser pulse by stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) of a pump pulse in a plasma requires to reach the self-similar regime of the strongly coupled (SC) SBS. In this Letter, we report on the first observation of the signatures of the transition from linear to self-similar regimes of SC-SBS, so far only predicted by theory and simulations. With a new fully head-on collision geometry, subpicosecond pulses are amplified by a factor of 5 with energy transfers of few tens of mJ. We observe pulse shortening, frequency spectrum broadening, and down-shifting for increasing gain, signatures of SC-SBS amplification entering the self-similar regime. This is also confirmed by the power law dependence of the gain on the amplification length: doubling the interaction length increases the gain by a factor 1.4. Pump backward Raman scattering (BRS) on SC-SBS amplification has been measured for the first time, showing a strong decrease of the BRS amplitude and frequency bandwidth when SBS seed amplification occurs.
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- L Lancia
- Dipartimento SBAI, Università di Roma "La Sapienza," Via Antonio Scarpa 14, 00161 Rome, Italy
- INFN-Sezione Roma 1-SAPIENZA, University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento SBAI, Università di Roma "La Sapienza," Via Antonio Scarpa 14, 00161 Rome, Italy
- INFN-Sezione Roma 1-SAPIENZA, University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento SBAI, Università di Roma "La Sapienza," Via Antonio Scarpa 14, 00161 Rome, Italy
- LULI-CNRS, École Polytechnique, CEA: Université Paris-Saclay; UPMC Université Paris 06: Sorbonne Universités, F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
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- LULI-UPMC Université Paris 06: Sorbonne Universités; CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA: Université Paris-Saclay, F-75252 Paris cedex 05, France
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- LULI-UPMC Université Paris 06: Sorbonne Universités; CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA: Université Paris-Saclay, F-75252 Paris cedex 05, France
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- Institute of Physics of the ASCR, ELI-Beamlines, 18221 Prague, Czech Republic
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- LULI-CEA, CNRS, École Polytechnique: Université Paris-Saclay; UPMC Université Paris 06: Sorbonne Universités, F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
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- LULI-CNRS, École Polytechnique, CEA: Université Paris-Saclay; UPMC Université Paris 06: Sorbonne Universités, F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
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- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
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- LULI-CEA, CNRS, École Polytechnique: Université Paris-Saclay; UPMC Université Paris 06: Sorbonne Universités, F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
- ILPP, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- IZEST, CEA, École Polytechnique, F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
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- LULI-CNRS, École Polytechnique, CEA: Université Paris-Saclay; UPMC Université Paris 06: Sorbonne Universités, F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
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- LULI-CNRS, École Polytechnique, CEA: Université Paris-Saclay; UPMC Université Paris 06: Sorbonne Universités, F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
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Hage A, Landgraf B, Taylor M, Wünsche M, Gangolf T, Höppner H, Prandolini MJ, Riedel R, Schulz M, Tavella F, Willner A, Yeung M, Paulus GG, Spielmann C, Dromey B, Zepf M. New design of a multi-jet target for quasi phase matching. Rev Sci Instrum 2014; 85:103105. [PMID: 25362369 DOI: 10.1063/1.4897269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
Abstract
An improved dual-gas quasi-phase matching (QPM) foil target for high harmonic generation (HHG) is presented. The target can be setup with 12 individual gas inlets each feeding multiple nozzles separated by a minimum distance of 10 μm. Three-dimensional gas density profiles of these jets were measured using a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer. These measurements reveal how the jets influence the density of gas in adjacent jets and how this leads to increased local gas densities. The analysis shows that the gas profiles of the jets are well defined up to a distance of about 300 μm from the orifice. This target design offers experimental flexibility, not only for HHG/QPM investigations, but also for a wide range of experiments due to the large number of possible jet configurations. We demonstrate the application to controlled phase tuning in the extreme ultraviolet using a 1 kHz-10 mJ-30 fs-laser system where interference between two jets in the spectral range from 17 to 30 nm was observed.
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- A Hage
- Deutsches Elektronensynchrotron (DESY), Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University, University Road, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronensynchrotron (DESY), Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Helmholtzinstitut Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Helmholtzinstitut Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronensynchrotron (DESY), Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Helmholtzinstitut Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronensynchrotron (DESY), Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University, University Road, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Helmholtzinstitut Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University, University Road, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University, University Road, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
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