Alignment of solid targets under extreme tight focus conditions generated by an ellipsoidal plasma mirror

Deepak Kumar; Michal ?míd; Sushil Singh; Alexander Soloviev; Hannes Bohlin; Konstantin Burdonov; Gashaw Fente; Alexander Kotov; Livia Lancia; Vit Lédl; Sergey Makarov; Michael Morrissey; Sergey Perevalov; Denis Romanovsky; Sergey Pikuz; Ryousuke Kodama; David Neely; Paul McKenna; Tomá? La?tovi?ka; Mikhail Starodubtsev; Stefan Weber; Motoaki Nakatsutsumi; Julien Fuchs

doi:10.1063/1.5088166

Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Volume. 4, Issue 2, 24402(2019)

Alignment of solid targets under extreme tight focus conditions generated by an ellipsoidal plasma mirror

Deepak Kumar^1、*, Michal ?míd¹, Sushil Singh¹, Alexander Soloviev², Hannes Bohlin¹, Konstantin Burdonov², Gashaw Fente¹, Alexander Kotov², Livia Lancia^3,4, Vit Lédl⁵, Sergey Makarov⁶, Michael Morrissey¹, Sergey Perevalov², Denis Romanovsky², Sergey Pikuz⁶, Ryousuke Kodama⁷, David Neely⁸, Paul McKenna⁹, Tomá? La?tovi?ka¹, Mikhail Starodubtsev², Stefan Weber¹, Motoaki Nakatsutsumi¹⁰, and Julien Fuchs^3,4

Author Affiliations

¹ELI Beamlines, Institute of Physics, 5. května 835, 252 41 Dolní B?e?any, Czech Republic

²Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAP RAS), 46 Ul’yanov Street, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

³LULI—CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA: Université Paris-Saclay

⁴UPMC Univ Paris 06: Sorbonne Universities, F-91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France

⁵Research Center Toptec, Institute of Plasma Physics, Sobotecká 1660, 511 01 Turnov, Czech Republic

⁶Joint Institute for High Temperatures Russian Academy of Science (JIHT RAS), Moscow 125412, Russia

⁷Division of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

⁸Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot OX11 0QX, United Kingdom

⁹Department of Physics SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, United Kingdom

¹⁰European XFEL GmbH, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany

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Deepak Kumar, Michal ?míd, Sushil Singh, Alexander Soloviev, Hannes Bohlin, Konstantin Burdonov, Gashaw Fente, Alexander Kotov, Livia Lancia, Vit Lédl, Sergey Makarov, Michael Morrissey, Sergey Perevalov, Denis Romanovsky, Sergey Pikuz, Ryousuke Kodama, David Neely, Paul McKenna, Tomá? La?tovi?ka, Mikhail Starodubtsev, Stefan Weber, Motoaki Nakatsutsumi, Julien Fuchs. Alignment of solid targets under extreme tight focus conditions generated by an ellipsoidal plasma mirror[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2019, 4(2): 24402

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Category: Fundamental Physics At Extremes

Received: May. 24, 2018

Accepted: Aug. 22, 2018

Published Online: Oct. 17, 2019

The Author Email: Kumar Deepak (Deepak.Kumar@eli-beams.eu)

DOI:10.1063/1.5088166

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