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Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Volume. 10, Issue 2, 027203(2025)

Currents from relativistic laser-plasma interaction as a novel metrology for the system stability of high-repetition-rate laser secondary sources

Michael Ehret1,2、a), Iuliana-Mariana Vladisavlevici1,2, Philip Wykeham Bradford3,4, Jakub Cikhardt5, Evgeny Filippov1, Jose Luis Henares1, Rubén Hernández Martín1, Diego de Luis1, José Antonio Pérez-Hernández1, Pablo Vicente1, Tomas Burian6, Enrique García-García1, Juan Hernández1, Cruz Mendez1, Marta Olivar Ruíz1, Óscar Varela1, Maria Dolores Rodríguez Frías1,7, João Jorge Santos3, and Giancarlo Gatti1
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  • 1Centro de Laseres Pulsados, Villamayor, Spain
  • 2ELI Beamlines Facility, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
  • 3Université Bordeaux–CNRS–CEA, CELIA, Talence, France
  • 4Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom
  • 5Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 6FZU–Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 7Departamento de Física y Matemáticas, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
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    Michael Ehret, Iuliana-Mariana Vladisavlevici, Philip Wykeham Bradford, Jakub Cikhardt, Evgeny Filippov, Jose Luis Henares, Rubén Hernández Martín, Diego de Luis, José Antonio Pérez-Hernández, Pablo Vicente, Tomas Burian, Enrique García-García, Juan Hernández, Cruz Mendez, Marta Olivar Ruíz, Óscar Varela, Maria Dolores Rodríguez Frías, João Jorge Santos, Giancarlo Gatti. Currents from relativistic laser-plasma interaction as a novel metrology for the system stability of high-repetition-rate laser secondary sources[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2025, 10(2): 027203

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    Received: Nov. 8, 2024

    Accepted: Feb. 10, 2025

    Published Online: Apr. 30, 2025

    The Author Email: Ehret Michael (michael.ehret@eli-beams.eu)

    DOI:10.1063/5.0247778

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