Plasma Accelerators and Ultrafast X-rays

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Simon Hooker

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Simon Hooker

Professor of Atomic and Laser Physics
Peter Norreys

Professor of Inertial Fusion Science
David Lloyd

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Christopher Arran

DPhil Particle Physics
Gavin Cheung

Graduate student
Robert Shalloo

DPhil Student
Kevin O'Keeffe

Postdoctoral Researcher
Laura Corner

Research Fellow

Publications

Fibre lasers for gamma colliders
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL-SPECIAL TOPICS 223 (2014) 1207-1211
L Corner
Producing bright X-rays for imaging applications using a laser wakefield accelerator
Optics InfoBase Conference Papers (2014)
SPD Mangles, MS Bloom, J Bryant et al.
High power fiber laser system for a high repetition rate laserwire
PHYSICAL REVIEW SPECIAL TOPICS-ACCELERATORS AND BEAMS 17 (2014) ARTN 072801
LJ Nevay, R Walczak, L Corner
Producing bright X-rays for imaging applications using a laser wakefield accelerator
Optics InfoBase Conference Papers (2014)
SPD Mangles, MS Bloom, J Bryant et al.
Compact laser accelerators for X-ray phase-contrast imaging
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 372 (2014)
Z Najmudin, S Kneip, MS Bloom et al.
Order dependent spatial properties of high harmonic generation
Optics InfoBase Conference Papers (2014)
DT Lloyd, K O'Keeffe, SM Hooker
Laserwire: A high resolution non-invasive beam profiling diagnostic
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 740 (2014) 226-228
L Corner, A Aryshev, GA Blair et al.
Multi-pulse laser wakefield acceleration
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS B-ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS 47 (2014) ARTN 234003
SM Hooker, R Bartolini, SPD Mangles et al.
Developments in laser-driven plasma accelerators
Nature Photonics 7 (2013) 775-782
SM Hooker
Two-Pulse Ionization Injection into Quasilinear Laser Wakefields
Physics Review Letters 111 (2013) 155004
N Bourgeois, J Cowley, SM Hooker
Implosion and heating experiments of fast ignition targets by Gekko-XII and LFEX lasers
EPJ Web of Conferences 59 (2013)
H Shiraga, S Fujioka, M Nakai et al.
Polarization-controlled quasi-phase matching for linearly and circularly polarized high harmonic generati...
2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and International Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-IQEC 2013 (2013)
LZ Liu, K O'Keeffe, SM Hooker
Sub-micrometre resolution laserwire transverse beam size measurement system
IBIC 2013: Proceedings of the 2nd International Beam Instrumentation Conference (2013) 243-246
LJ Nevay, ST Boogert, P Karataev et al.
Longitudinal electron bunch profile reconstruction by performing phase retrieval on coherent transition r...
PHYSICAL REVIEW SPECIAL TOPICS-ACCELERATORS AND BEAMS 16 (2013) ARTN 040701
SI Bajlekov, M Heigoldt, A Popp et al.
Laminar shocks in high power laser interactions
40th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, EPS 2013 2 (2013) 850-853
RA Cairns, R Bingham, PA Norreys et al.
Measuring fast electron spectra and laser absorption in relativistic laser-solid interactions using diffe...
Rev Sci Instrum 84 (2013) 083505-
RHH Scott, EL Clark, F Pérez et al.
Sub-micrometre resolution laser wire transverse beam size measurement system
IPAC 2013: Proceedings of the 4th International Particle Accelerator Conference (2013) 795-797
LJ Nevay, GA Blair, ST Boogert et al.
Polarization-controlled quasi-phase matching for linearly and circularly polarized high harmonic generati...
2013 CONFERENCE ON AND INTERNATIONAL QUANTUM ELECTRONICS CONFERENCE LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS EUROPE (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC) (2013)
LZ Liu, K O'Keeffe, SM Hooker et al.
Polarization-controlled quasi-phase matching for linearly and circularly polarized high harmonic generati...
Optics InfoBase Conference Papers (2013)
LZ Liu, K O'Keeffe, SM Hooker
Complete Spatial Characterization of an Optical Wavefront Using a Variable-Separation Pinhole Pair
2013 CONFERENCE ON AND INTERNATIONAL QUANTUM ELECTRONICS CONFERENCE LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS EUROPE (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC) (2013)
DT Lloyd, K O'Keeffe, SM Hooker et al.
Complete spatial characterization of an optical wavefront using a variable-separation pinhole pair
Optics InfoBase Conference Papers (2013)
DT Lloyd, K O'Keeffe, SM Hooker
Complete spatial characterization of an optical wavefront using a variable-separation pinhole Pair
2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and International Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-IQEC 2013 (2013)
DT Lloyd, K O'Keeffe, SM Hooker
Numerical modeling of the sensitivity of x-ray driven implosions to low-mode flux asymmetries
Physical Review Letters 110 (2013)
RHH Scott, DS Clark, DK Bradley et al.
Investigation of GeV-scale electron acceleration in a gas-filled capillary discharge waveguide
New Journal of Physics 15 (2013)
PA Walker, N Bourgeois, W Rittershofer et al.
A study of fast electron energy transport in relativistically intense laser-plasma interactions with larg...
Physics of Plasmas 19 (2012)
RHH Scott, F Perez, JJ Santos et al.
The study of parametric instabilities relevant to Laser-Plasma interactions in Fast Ignition
39th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics 2012, EPS 2012 and the 16th International Congress on Plasma Physics 2 (2012) 938-941
KA Humphrey, DC Speirs, R Trines et al.
Transverse beam profile measurements of laser accelerated electrons using coherent optical radiation
AIP Conference Proceedings 1507 (2012) 258-261
N Bourgeois, M Heigoldt, W Rittershofer et al.
Multiple pulse resonantly enhanced laser plasma wakefield acceleration
AIP Conference Proceedings 1507 (2012) 872-873
L Corner, R Walczak, LJ Nevay et al.
Electron acceleration driven in plasma channels at the Astra-Gemini laser facility
AIP Conference Proceedings 1507 (2012) 193-198
PA Walker, N Bourgeois, W Rittershofer et al.
Employing laser-accelerated proton beams to diagnose high intensity laser-plasma interactions
AIP Conference Proceedings 1462 (2012) 149-154
G Sarri, CA Cecchetti, K Quinn et al.
Controlling fast-electron-beam divergence using two laser pulses
Physical Review Letters 109 (2012)
RHH Scott, C Beaucourt, HP Schlenvoigt et al.
Testing quantum mechanics in non-Minkowski space-time with high power lasers and 4 th generation light so...
Scientific Reports 2 (2012)
BJB Crowley, R Bingham, RG Evans et al.
Numerical simulation of plasma-based raman amplification of laser pulses to petawatt powers
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 39 (2011) 2622-2623
RMGM Trines, F Fiuza, RA Fonseca et al.
Proton radiography of intense-laser-irradiated wire-attached cone targets
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 39 (2011) 2822-2823
T Yabuuchi, H Sawada, T Bartal et al.
Proton probe imaging of fields within a laser-generated plasma channel
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 39 (2011) 2616-2617
L Willingale, PM Nilson, AGR Thomas et al.
Present states and future prospect of fast ignition realization experiment (FIREX) with Gekko and LFEX La...
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 653 (2011) 84-88
M Koga, Y Arikawa, H Azechi et al.
Studying ignition schemes on European laser facilities
Nuclear Fusion 51 (2011)
S Jacquemot, F Amiranoff, SD Baton et al.
Production of picosecond, kilojoule, and petawatt laser pulses via Raman amplification of nanosecond puls...
Physical Review Letters 107 (2011)
RMGM Trines, F Fiúza, R Bingham et al.
Experimental results performed in the framework of the HiPER European Project
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 8080 (2011)
D Batani, M Koenig, S Baton et al.
The zero vector potential mechanism of attosecond absorption
Physics of Plasmas 18 (2011)
T Baeva, S Gordienko, APL Robinson et al.
High-power, kilojoule class laser channeling in millimeter-scale underdense plasma
Physical Review Letters 106 (2011)
L Willingale, PM Nilson, AGR Thomas et al.
Particle acceleration: Pushing protons with photons
Nature Photonics 5 (2011) 134-135
P Norreys
Simulations of efficient Raman amplification into the multipetawatt regime
Nature Physics 7 (2011) 87-92
RMGM Trines, F Fiúza, R Bingham et al.
Simulation of free-electron lasers seeded with broadband radiation
Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams 14 (2011)
SI Bajlekov, WM Fawley, CB Schroeder et al.
A Vlasov-Fokker-Planck code for high energy density physics
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS 230 (2011) 6475-6494
M Tzoufras, AR Bell, PA Norreys et al.
Laser-wakefield acceleration of electron beams in a low density plasma channel
Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams 13 (2010)
TPA Ibbotson, N Bourgeois, TP Rowlands-Rees et al.
The Vulcan 10 PW project
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 244 (2010)
C Hernandez-Gomez, SP Blake, O Chekhlov et al.
Creation of persistent, straight, 2 mm long laser driven channels in underdense plasmas
Physics of Plasmas 17 (2010)
G Sarri, KL Lancaster, R Trines et al.
Observation of postsoliton expansion following laser propagation through an underdense plasma
Physical Review Letters 105 (2010)
G Sarri, DK Singh, JR Davies et al.
First milestone on the path toward a table-top free-electron laser (FEL)
AIP Conference Proceedings 1228 (2010) 295-300
M Fuchs, R Weingartner, A Popp et al.
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Research highlights

Kevin O'Keeffe wins SET for Britain award