Abel Blazevic

TL;DR: The laminarity of high-current multi-MeV proton beams produced by irradiating thin metallic foils with ultraintense lasers has been measured and appears to be at least 100-fold better than conventional accelerator beams.

TL;DR: Collimated jets of carbon and fluorine ions are observed from the rear surface of thin foils irradiated with laser intensities of up to 5 x 10 (19)W/cm(2), which inhibits screening effects and permits effective energy transfer and acceleration of other ion species.

TL;DR: In this paper, a beam-plasma interaction experiment was carried out using the heavy ion synchrotron at the GSI, Darmstadt, Germany! accelerator with two high-energy laser systems: petawatt high energy laser for ion experiments (PHELIX! and nanosecond high energy LEM) and NHELIX!.

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed study on the acceleration of intense ion beams by relativistic laser plasmas was performed at the 100 TW laser at the Laboratoire pour L'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses.

TL;DR: It is found that electron flow through metals is uniform and can be laser imprinted, whereas propagation through insulators induces spatial disruption of the fast electrons.