Laser-plasma interaction physics in multi kilojoule experiments

Laser physics and laser-tissue interaction.

Within the last few years, lasers have gained increasing use in the management of cardiovascular disease, and laser angioplasty has become a widely performed procedure. For this reason, a basic knowledge of lasers and their applications is essential to vascular surgeons, cardiologists, and interventional radiologists. To elucidate some fundamental concepts regarding laser physics, we describe h...

Laser-produced plasma-wall interaction

Jets of laser–generated plasma represent a flexible and well-defined model environment for investigation of plasma interactions with solid surfaces (walls). The pilot experiments carried out on the iodine laser system (5–200 J, 0.44 mm, 0.25–0.3 ns, ,1 10 W/cm) at the PALS Research Centre in Prague are reported. Modification of macroscopic characteristics of the Al plasma jets produced at laser...

Laser-Plasma Coupling: Calculations and Experiments

Laser-electron Compton Interaction in Plasma Channels

Integrated laser–target interaction experiments on the RAL petawatt laser

1 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA 2 Department of Physics, Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, BY7 1NN, UK 3 Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston, Reading, RG7 4PR, UK 4 CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon., OX11 0QX, UK 5 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA 6 Department of Applied Sciences, University of California Da...