Jerzy Wolowski

TL;DR: In this article, a set of complementary corpuscular diagnostics applied in experiments for investigation of laser-produced plasma as a source of ions is presented, focusing on the ioninduced secondary electron emission problem and its influence on the accuracy of the measurements.

TL;DR: In this article, anomalous observations using the fast ignition for laser driven fusion energy are interpreted and experimental and theoretical results are reported which are in contrast to the very numerous effects usually observed at petawatt-picosecond laser interaction with plasmas.

TL;DR: It is shown that a considerable increase in proton energy and current is possible when a double-layer foil target containing a high- Z layer and a low- Z hydrogen-rich layer is used instead of a single-layer target.

TL;DR: In this paper, a skin layer process was used to explain the relativistic self-focusing and nonlinear force effects of very energetic highly charged fast ions, separated by their charge number Z, from ns laser pulses.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derived simplified scaling laws for the ion energies, the ion current densities, and the ion beam intensities for the cases of subrelativistic and relativistic laser-plasma interactions.