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A jet production experiment using the high-repetition rate Astra laser

Astrophysical jet experiments

Characterization of electrostatic shock in laser-produced optically-thin plasma flows using optical diagnostics

Characterizing counter-streaming interpenetrating plasmas relevant to astrophysical collisionless shocks

Collisionless Shocks Driven by Supersonic Plasma Flows with Self-Generated Magnetic Fields

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Collisionless electrostatic shock generation using high-energy laser systems

Collisionless shock experiments with lasers and observation of Weibel instabilitiesa)

Collisionless shock generation by a high-power laser

Collisionless shock generation in high-speed counterstreaming plasma flows by a high-power laser

Collisionless shockwaves formed by counter-streaming laser-produced plasmas

Computational Study of Magnetic Field Amplification in Laser-Produced Shock Waves Relevant to Supernova Remnants

Decaying shock studies of phase transitions in MgO-SiO2 systems: Implications for the super-Earths' interiors

scholarly article

Density filament and helical field line structures in three dimensional Weibel-mediated collisionless shocks

Developed turbulence and nonlinear amplification of magnetic fields in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas

scientific article

Dynamic X-ray diffraction observation of shocked solid iron up to 170 GPa.

scientific article

Dynamic compression of dense oxide (Gd3Ga5O12) from 0.4 to 2.6 TPa: Universal Hugoniot of fluid metals

scientific article

Electron acceleration by wave turbulence in a magnetized plasma

Enhancing laser beam performance by interfering intense laser beamlets

scientific article published on 05 July 2019

Experimental and ab initio investigations of microscopic properties of laser-shocked Ge-doped ablator

scientific article published on 14 December 2015

Experimental evidence of nonthermal acceleration of relativistic electrons by an intensive laser pulse.

scientific article

Experiments to investigate the effects of radiative cooling on plasma jet collimation

Formation and propagation of laser-driven plasma jets in an ambient medium studied with X-ray radiography and optical diagnostics

Formation of counterstreaming plasmas for collisionless shock experiment

Formation of density inhomogeneity in laser produced plasmas for a test bed of magnetic field amplification in supernova remnants

Generation of counter-streaming plasmas for collisionless shock experiment

Generation of scaled protogalactic seed magnetic fields in laser-produced shock waves.

scientific article

High Mach-number collisionless shock driven by a laser with an external magnetic field

High-Mach number collisionless shock and photo-ionized non-LTE plasma for laboratory astrophysics with intense lasers

High-power laser experiments to study collisionless shock generation

Highly radiative shock experiments driven by GEKKO XII

Interaction of high Mach-number shocks in laser-produced plasmas

Jet formation in counterstreaming collisionless plasmas

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Jet formation in counterstreaming plasmas produced by high-power laser beams

Kelvin-Helmholtz Turbulence Associated with Collisionless Shocks in Laser Produced Plasmas

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Kinetic effects on neutron generation in moderately collisional interpenetrating plasma flows

Laboratory Study on Disconnection Events in Comets

scientific article published on 11 January 2018

Laboratory astrophysical collisionless shock experiments on Omega and NIF

Laboratory experiment to study collisionless shock

Laboratory experiments on plasma jets in a magnetic field using high-power lasers

Laboratory investigations on the origins of cosmic rays

Laboratory study of stationary accretion shock relevant to astrophysical systems.

scientific article

Laser-shock compression of magnesium oxide in the warm-dense-matter regime.

scientific article published on 17 August 2015

Long time evolution of collisionless shocks in laser produced counterstreaming plasmas

Magnetic reconnection driven by Gekko XII lasers with a Helmholtz capacitor-coil target

scientific article published in 2016

Magnetic reconnection driven by electron dynamics

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Magneto-optic probe measurements in low density-supersonic jets

Magnetohydrodynamics of laser-produced high-energy-density plasma in a strong external magnetic field.

scientific article

Model experiment of magnetic field amplification in laser-produced plasmas via the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability

Modeling the interaction of solar wind with a dipole magnetic field with Shenguang II intense lasers

New insights into the laser produced electron–positron pairs

Nonlinear evolution of the modified Simon-Hoh instability via a cascade of sideband instabilities in a weak beam plasma system

scientific article published on 01 July 1992

Numerical analysis of hydrodynamic instability in magnetized laser ablation flow

Observation of ultrahigh gradient electron acceleration by a self-modulated intense short laser pulse

scientific article published on 01 May 1995

Optical measurements of paired luminous rings in capacitive radio-frequency hydrogen discharges

scientific article published in November 1999

Optical pyrometer system for collisionless shock experiments in high-power laser-produced plasmas.

scientific article

P-ρ-T measurements of H2O up to 260 GPa under laser-driven shock loading.

scientific article published on April 2015

Plasma Production by Helicon and Slow Waves

scientific article published on March 11, 2003

Plasma particle-in-cell simulations with QED reactions for pair production experiments using a high-Z solid target

article published in 2013

Progress Towards a Laser Produced Relativistic Electron-Positron Pair Plasma

Proton imaging of an electrostatic field structure formed in laser-produced counter-streaming plasmas

Rayleigh-Taylor instability experiments on the LULI2000 laser in scaled conditions for young supernova remnants

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Self-organized electromagnetic field structures in laser-produced counter-streaming plasmas

Shock compression response of forsterite above 250 GPa

scientific article

Shockwaves and filaments induced by counter-streaming laser-produced plasmas

Significant static pressure increase in a precompression cell target for laser-driven advanced dynamic compression experiments

Spherical shock in the presence of an external magnetic field

Static compression experiments for advanced coupling techniques of laser-driven dynamic compression and precompression target

Strong Compression of a Magnetic Field with a Laser-Accelerated Foil

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Studying astrophysical collisionless shocks with counterstreaming plasmas from high power lasers

article published in 2012

Supersonic plasma turbulence in the laboratory

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

Temperature measurements of electrostatic shocks in laser-produced counter-streaming plasmas

The conceptual design of 1-ps time resolution neutron detector for fusion reaction history measurement at OMEGA and the National Ignition Facility

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

The scalability of the accretion column in magnetic cataclysmic variables: the POLAR project

Thomson scattering measurement of a collimated plasma jet generated by a high-power laser system

Thomson scattering measurement of a shock in laser-produced counter-streaming plasmas

Time Evolution of Collisionless Shock in Counterstreaming Laser-Produced Plasmas

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Transition from Collisional to Collisionless Regimes in Interpenetrating Plasma Flows on the National Ignition Facility

scientific article published on 5 May 2017

Visualizing electromagnetic fields in laser-produced counter-streaming plasma experiments for collisionless shock laboratory astrophysics

scholarly article by N. L. Kugland et al published May 2013 in Physics of Plasmas