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Laser Science: Paving the Way for Advances in Laser Technology
Laser science is a field dedicated to developing lasers and their application. Here’s what’s happening in laser science and laser technology and why it matters.
This initiative features short interviews with LaserNetUS members, highlighting opportunities for scientists to use the network's laser facilities for their research.
Toward electron temperature profiles in hot-dense plasmas from x-ray spectral ensembles
B. F. Kraus; S. P. McPoyle; K. Atay; E. Kriz; R. C. Hollinger; S. N. Benjamin; S. Malko; K. W. Hill; Lan Gao; P. C. Efthimion; Shoujun Wang; J. King; S. Zahedpour Anaraki; V. N. Shlyaptsev; J. J. Rocca
Robust unfolding of MeV x-ray spectra from filter stack spectrometer data without spectral shape assumption or arbitrary algorithm termination
C.-S. Wong, J. Strehlow, D. Broughton, S. Luedtke, C.-K. Huang, A. Bogale, R, Fitzgarrald, R. Nedbailo, J.L. Schmidt, T. Schmidt, J. Twardowski, A. Van Pelt, M. A. Alvarez, A. Junghans, L. T. Mix, R. Reinovsky, D. R. Rusby, Z. Wang, B. Wolfe, B. J. Albright, S. Batha, and S. Palaniyappan
MeV x-ray production from a Petawatt laser in the regime of a relativistically transparent preplasma, with applications to radiography
J. Strehlow, L. Yin, C.-S. Wong, S.V. Luedtke, S. Palaniyappan, D. J. Stark. C.-K. Huang, A. Bogale, B. Cage, T.A. Coffman, A. Figueroa, R. Fitzgarrald, L.T. Mix, R. Nedbailo, D.R. Rusby, J.L. Schmidt, J. Twardowski, A. Van Pelt, T.H. Day, B.J. Jones, S.A. Bruce, A. Helal, M.M. Spinks, H.J. Quevedo, F.N. Beg, E.A Chowdhury, T. Ditmire, E. Liang, A.G.R. Thomas, J.C. Fernandez, D.C. Gautier, J. Hunter, Y. Kim, K. Meaney, and B.J. Albright
Announcing Plenary Speakers for the 2025 LaserNetUS Meeting
The stellar lineup of plenary speakers for the 2025 LaserNetUS Meeting in Phoenix, AZ, July 8-10, 2025, features prominent thought leaders in plasma physics.
Join the LaserNetUS Town Hall for Cycle 7 on November 14, 2024, to learn about submitting research proposals for the upcoming cycle, facility updates, and proposal tips. Engage with LaserNetUS leadership and explore new opportunities in high-power laser science. Registration is free.
LaserNetUS Open Office Hours Wednesdays for Cycle 7 Call for Proposals
LaserNetUS is hosting free, weekly virtual office hours via Zoom each Wednesday, 10-11 AM Pacific Time, through November 27, 2024. Join us with your questions for Cycle 7 Proposal Submissions!
Toward direct spatial and intensity characterization of ultra-high-intensity laser pulses using ponderomotive scattering of free electrons
A. Longman, S. Ravichandran, L. Manzo, C. Z. He, R. Lera, N. McLane, M. Huault, G. Tiscareno, D. Hanggi, P. Spingola, N. Czapla, R. L. Daskalova, L. Roso, R. Fedosejevs, W. T. Hill, III
Study of a magnetically driven reconnection platform using ultrafast proton radiography
Abraham Chien, Lan Gao, Hantao Ji, Xiaoxia Yuan, Eric G. Blackman, Hui Chen, Philip C. Efthimion, Gennady Fiksel, Dustin H. Froula, Kenneth W. Hill, Kai Huang, Quanming Lu, John D. Moody, Philip M. Nilson
Streaked sub-ps-resolution x-ray line shapes and implications for solid-density plasma dynamics (invited)
B. F. Kraus, Lan Gao, K. W. Hill, M. Bitter, P. C. Efthimion, R. Hollinger, Shoujun Wang, Huanyu Song, R. Nedbailo, J. J. Rocca, R. C. Mancini, C. B. Beatty, M. J. MacDonald, R. Shepherd
Referenceless, grating-based, single shot X-ray phase contrast imaging with optimized laser-driven K-α sources
V. Bouffetier, G. Pérez-Callejo, D. Stutman, C. Stoeckl, I. A. Begishev, W. Theobald, T. Filkins, C. Mileham, L. Ceurvorst, S. R. Klein, T. Goudal, A. Casner, and M. P. Valdivia
L. Obst-Huebl, K. Nakamura, S. Hakimi, J. T. De Chant, A. Jewell, B. Stassel, A. M. Snijders, A. J. Gonsalves, J. van Tilborg, Z. Eisentraut, Z. Harvey, L. Willingale, Cs. Toth, C. B. Schroeder, C. G. R. Geddes, E. Esarey