Laser plasma acceleration is a potentially disruptive technology: It could be used to build far more compact accelerators and open up new use cases in fundamental research, industry and health.

In addition, magnetized laser-plasma interactions are important in magneto-inertial fusion concepts, which strive to achieve fusion with the combined advantages of magnetic and inertial confinements.

For the first time, scientists have "photographed" a rare plasma instability, where high-energy electron beams form into ...

This will allow real-time observation of laser-plasma interactions. Professor Zulfikar Najmudin, Deputy Director of the John Adams Institute, highlighted the potential of this research ...

Significant advancements in laser-plasma acceleration at DESY lead to improved electron beam quality, paving the way for ...

As importantly, the experimental results validate their laser–plasma interaction code, pF3D, which could cover full-scale modelling using a hybrid approach and massively parallel supercomputer.

Pulsed laser deposition ... of a plasma plume that expands away from the surface. This plume contains material that is eventually deposited on an opposing substrate similar to previous deposition ...