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All optical dual stage laser wakefield acceleration driven by two-color laser pulses

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

All-Optical Radiation Reaction at1021  W/cm2

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

All-Optical Steering of Laser-Wakefield-Accelerated Electron Beams

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Amplification and generation of ultra-intense twisted laser pulses via stimulated Raman scattering

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

Beam Loading in the Nonlinear Regime of Plasma-Based Acceleration

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Collimated protons accelerated from an overdense gas jet irradiated by a 1 µm wavelength high-intensity short-pulse laser

scientific article published on 18 October 2017

Dynamics and control of shock shells in the coulomb explosion of very large deuterium clusters

scientific article published on 25 January 2005

Electromagnetic Field Generation in the Downstream of Electrostatic Shocks Due to Electron Trapping

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Ergodic model for the expansion of spherical nanoplasmas

scientific article published on 27 June 2007

Exploring the nature of collisionless shocks under laboratory conditions

scientific article

Generation of neutral and high-density electron-positron pair plasmas in the laboratory.

scientific article

Generation of ultra-intense single-cycle laser pulses by using photon deceleration.

scientific article

Global simulation for laser-driven MeV electrons in fast ignition

scientific article published on 28 October 2004

Kinetics of the collisionless expansion of spherical nanoplasmas

scientific article published on 03 May 2006

Laser-driven shock acceleration of monoenergetic ion beams

scientific article published on 20 November 2012

Magnetic Control of Particle Injection in Plasma Based Accelerators

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Magnetic turbulence in a table-top laser-plasma relevant to astrophysical scenarios.

scientific article published on 30 June 2017

Magnetic-field generation and amplification in an expanding plasma

scientific article published on 30 April 2014

Measurements of the critical power for self-injection of electrons in a laser wakefield accelerator

scientific article published on 19 November 2009

Mechanism of generating fast electrons by an intense laser at a steep overdense interface.

scientific article

Minimagnetospheres above the lunar surface and the formation of lunar swirls

scientific article published on 20 August 2012

Near-GeV Acceleration of Electrons by a Nonlinear Plasma Wave Driven by a Self-Guided Laser Pulse

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Near-GeV-energy laser-wakefield acceleration of self-injected electrons in a centimeter-scale plasma channel

scientific article published on 27 October 2004

Plasma channels produced by a laser-triggered high-voltage discharge

scientific article published on September 26, 2003

Production of picosecond, kilojoule, and petawatt laser pulses via Raman amplification of nanosecond pulses

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Proton shock acceleration in laser-plasma interactions

scientific article published on 08 January 2004

Quasiparticle approach to the modulational instability of drift waves coupling to zonal flows

scientific article published on 28 April 2005

Relativistic generalization of formation and ion-reflection conditions in electrostatic shocks

scientific article published on April 30, 2013

Self-guided laser wakefield acceleration beyond 1 GeV using ionization-induced injection

scientific article published on 01 September 2010

Space-charge effects in the current-filamentation or Weibel instability.

scientific article

Stable multi-GeV electron accelerator driven by waveform-controlled PW laser pulses

scientific article published on 31 August 2017

Statistical kinetic treatment of relativistic binary collisions.

scientific article published on 27 February 2009

Transverse electron-scale instability in relativistic shear flows

scientific article published on 19 August 2015

Two-dimensional collision of probe photons with relativistic ionization fronts.

scientific article

Very high Mach-number electrostatic shocks in collisionless plasmas

scientific article published on 02 February 2006

Weibel-instability-mediated collisionless shocks in the laboratory with ultraintense lasers

scientific article published on 08 June 2012

dc-Magnetic-Field Generation in Unmagnetized Shear Flows

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters