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Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Volume. 9, Issue 4, 047202(2024)

Optimizing laser coupling, matter heating, and particle acceleration from solids using multiplexed ultraintense lasers

Weipeng Yao1...2, Motoaki Nakatsutsumi1, Sébastien Buffechoux1, Patrizio Antici3, Marco Borghesi4, Andrea Ciardi2, Sophia N. Chen5, Emmanuel d’Humières6, Laurent Gremillet7,8, Robert Heathcote9, Vojtěch Horný1, Paul McKenna0, Mark N. Quinn0, Lorenzo Romagnani1, Ryan Royle0, Gianluca Sarri4, Yasuhiko Sentoku0, Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt1, Toma Toncian0, Olivier Tresca0, Laura Vassura1, Oswald Willi0 and Julien Fuchs1 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 0Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557, USA
  • 0Institut für Laser und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 0Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
  • 0SUPA, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, United Kingdom
  • 1LULI-CNRS, CEA, Sorbonne Université, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, F-91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
  • 2Sorbonne Université, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, LERMA, F-75005 Paris, France
  • 3INRS-EMT, 1650 Boul, Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Quebec J3X 1S2, Canada
  • 4Center for Plasma Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
  • 5“Horia Hulubei” National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, 30 Reactorului Street, RO-077125 Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
  • 6University of Bordeaux, Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications, CNRS, CEA, UMR 5107, F-33405 Talence, France
  • 7CEA, DAM, DIF, F-91297 Arpajon, France
  • 8Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, LMCE, 91680 Bruyères-le-Châtel, France
  • 9Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom
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    Weipeng Yao, Motoaki Nakatsutsumi, Sébastien Buffechoux, Patrizio Antici, Marco Borghesi, Andrea Ciardi, Sophia N. Chen, Emmanuel d’Humières, Laurent Gremillet, Robert Heathcote, Vojtěch Horný, Paul McKenna, Mark N. Quinn, Lorenzo Romagnani, Ryan Royle, Gianluca Sarri, Yasuhiko Sentoku, Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt, Toma Toncian, Olivier Tresca, Laura Vassura, Oswald Willi, Julien Fuchs. Optimizing laser coupling, matter heating, and particle acceleration from solids using multiplexed ultraintense lasers[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2024, 9(4): 047202

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    Received: Oct. 27, 2023

    Accepted: Mar. 14, 2024

    Published Online: Aug. 13, 2024

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    DOI:10.1063/5.0184919

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    laser devices and laser physics
    Lasers and Laser Optics
    Laser physics
    laser manufacturing
    Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology