Session Q2: Focus Session: The Ultra Intense Laser Frontier

1:30 PM–4:06 PM, Friday, June 8, 2007
TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod C

Chair: L. DiMauro, Ohio State University

Abstract ID: BAPS.2007.DAMOP.Q2.5

Abstract: Q2.00005 : First light from the Diocles laser: Relativistic laser-plasmas and beams

2:42 PM–3:18 PM

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Author:

  Donald Umstadter
    (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)

Reported are first experimental results from a new high-power (150 TW) laser, Diocles, now in operation at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Discussed are novel approaches to using the ultra-high-intensity light from this laser to study relativistic laser plasma interactions. Bright, ultrashort duration (femtosecond ) pulses of energetic (keV -- MeV) x-ray and charged-particle beams are generated through these interactions. Also covered in this talk will be applications of these unique radiation sources for research in the physical sciences, as well as biomedicine, defense and homeland security.

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