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Light Sci Appl
June 2022
LOA, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 181 Chemin de la Hunière et des Joncherettes, 91120, Palaiseau, France.
Laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) produce electric fields of the order of 100 GV m, more than 1000 times larger than those produced by radio-frequency accelerators. These uniquely strong fields make LPAs a promising path to generate electron beams beyond the TeV, an important goal in high-energy physics. Yet, large electric fields are of little benefit if they are not maintained over a long distance.
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March 2018
Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557, USA.
An experimental platform for the studying of high-intensity laser plasma interactions in strong magnetic fields has been developed based on the 1 MA Zebra pulsed power generator coupled with the 50-TW Leopard laser. The Zebra generator produces 100-300 T longitudinal and transverse magnetic fields with different types of loads. The Leopard laser creates plasma at an intensity of 10 W/cm in the magnetic field of coil loads.
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March 2012
Biospheric Theory and Modelling Group, Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie, Hans-Knöll-Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany.
The Earth's chemical composition far from chemical equilibrium is unique in our Solar System, and this uniqueness has been attributed to the presence of widespread life on the planet. Here, I show how this notion can be quantified using non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Generating and maintaining disequilibrium in a thermodynamic variable requires the extraction of power from another thermodynamic gradient, and the second law of thermodynamics imposes fundamental limits on how much power can be extracted.
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October 2006
Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, ENSTA-Ecole Polytechnique-CNRS, 91761 Palaíseau Cedex, France.
We argue for a different physical interpretation of the results given in the recent Letter by Chvykov et al. [Opt. Lett.
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May 2006
Center for Ultrafast Optical Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-2099, USA.
We demonstrate what we believe to be the highest-contrast (10(11)), multiterawatt, chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) Ti:sapphire laser by applying the modified cross-polarized-wave (XPW) generation method. This method produces a contrast improvement of 3 orders of magnitude using microjoule input energy. Microjoule energy can be achieved by direct amplification without the complications of a double CPA system.
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