The feasibility of the generation of bright ultrashort gamma-ray pulses is demonstrated in the interaction of a relativistic electron bunch with a counterpropagating tightly focused superstrong laser beam in the radiation-dominated regime. The Compton scattering spectra of gamma radiation are investigated using a semiclassical description for the electron dynamics in the laser field and a quant...

Background: Skin cancer is the most prevalent type of cancer and melanoma is the deadliest kind of skin cancer in the world. Due to enhanced induction of apoptosis and ROS levels, low-level lasers can be utilized to destroy skin cancer cells. Lasers are used to treat some skin lesions. Vitamin A is beneficial in the prevention and treatment of skin cancer. Vitamin A inhibits the pathway of canc...

Extreme ultraviolet (XUV) radiation from 100 to less than 30 nm is emitted from a laser-induced plasma generated on a liquid-mercury surface. This surface does not degrade even after tens of thousands of laser pulses. The 532-nm laser light focused on the mercury forms a bright plasma core and a plume extending several millimeters above the liquid level. The plasma core produces primarily conti...

The acronymLASER, constructed fromLightAmplification byStimulatedEmission of Radiation, has become so common and popular in every day life that it is now referred to as laser. Fundamental theories of lasers, their historical development from milliwatts to petawatts in terms of power, operation principles, beam characteristics, and applications of laser have been the subject of several books [1–...

A laser-based method to generate ultrashort pulses of synchrotron radiation in electron storage rings is coherent harmonic generation (CHG) using two undulators to produce coherent radiation at harmonics of the initial laser wavelength by microbunching. The bunching factor and thus the pulse intensity, however, decreases exponentially with increasing harmonic order. Echo-enabled harmonic genera...

We investigate quantum radiation reaction in laser-electron interactions across different energy and intensity regimes. Using a fully quantum approach which also accounts exactly for the effect of the strong laser pulse on the electron motion, we identify in particular a regime in which radiation reaction is dominated by quantum interference. We find signatures of quantum radiation reaction in ...

We have demonstrated that the supercurrent distribution in current-biased YBa2Cu3O72d thin films can be obtained by measuring the radiation power of THz electromagnetic pulses excited with femtosecond laser pulses. As the radiation power is proportional to the square of the bias current density at the laser spot position, the two-dimensional current distribution can be obtained from the intensi...

In this paper, we propose a scheme to generate tunable coherent X-ray radiation for future light source applications. This scheme uses an energy chirped electron beam, a laser modulator, a laser chirper and two bunch compressors to generate a prebunched kilo-Ampere current electron beam from a few tens Ampere electron beam out of a linac. The initial modulation energy wavelength can be compress...

Hollow-core photonic-crystal fibres (PCFs) for the delivery of high-fluence laser radiation capable of ablating tooth enamel are developed. Sequences of picosecond pulses of 1.06 microm Nd:YAG-laser radiation with a total energy of about 2 mJ are transmitted through a hollow-core photonic-crystal fibre with a core diameter of approximately 14 microm and are focused on a tooth surface in vitro t...