Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses

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2019

  • Ponderomotive and resonant effects in the acceleration of particles by electromagnetic modes
    • Almansa Ivanessa
    • Russman Felipe B.
    • Marini Samuel
    • Peter Eduardo
    • de Oliveira Glaucius I.
    • Cairns R. Alan
    • Rizzato Felipe B.
    Physics of Plasmas, American Institute of Physics, 2019, 26 (3), pp.033105. (10.1063/1.5058748)
    DOI : 10.1063/1.5058748
  • Générer des impulsions laser ultra-brèves de très haute intensité :la technique du CPA
    • Druon Frédéric
    • Sentis Marc
    • Salin François
    • Leblanc Catherine
    • Salières Pascal
    • Quéré Fabien
    • Zeitoun Philippe
    Reflets de la Physique, EDP sciences, 2019. Il y a un avant et un après l’article publié en 1985 par Donna Strickland et Gérard Mourou [1] faisant la démonstration de l’amplification par dérive de fréquence (CPA pour Chirped pulse amplification).Le présent dossier de Reflets de la physique a pour but de donner une vue d’ensemble de cette technologie et de ses différentes implications. Le principe de l’amplification par dérive de fréquence est d’abord présenté, avec son développement dans le monde des lasers. Ensuite, sont décrites les applications industrielles relatives au micro-usinage et à l’ophtalmologie, qui concernent les intensités moyennes (1013 - 1014 W cm-2). Les applications à la recherche couvrent les intensités plus fortes (1014 - 1018 W cm-2), qui permettent la génération d’impulsions ultra-courtes et de sources nouvelles de photons et de particules, jusqu’à la ultra-haute intensité (1018 - 1022 W cm-2 et au-delà...) et les lasers multipétawatts. (10.1051/refdp/201961013)
    DOI : 10.1051/refdp/201961013
  • Alignment of solid targets under extreme tight focus conditions generated by an ellipsoidal plasma mirror
    • Kumar Deepak
    • Smid Michal
    • Singh Sushil
    • Soloviev Alexander
    • Bohlin Hannes
    • Burdonov Konstantin
    • Fente Gashaw
    • Kotov Alexander
    • Lancia Livia
    • Ledl Vit
    • Makarov Sergey
    • Morrissey Michael B.
    • Perevalov Sergey
    • Romanovsky Denis
    • Pikuz Sergey
    • Kodama Ryosuke
    • Neely David
    • Mckenna Paul
    • Laštovicka T.
    • Starodubtsev Mikhail V.
    • Weber Stefan
    • Nakatsutsumi M.
    • Fuchs Julien
    Matter and Radiation at Extremes, AIP Publishing, 2019, 4 (2), pp.024402. (10.1063/1.5088166)
    DOI : 10.1063/1.5088166
  • 2IMPACTs : Etude des effets de couplage Spatio-temporel sur le contraste temporel d’une impulsion laser intense. (IMPulsions Intenses Avec Couplage Spatio-Temporel)
    • Leblanc Catherine
    • Ranc Lucas
    • Zou J.P.
    • Papadopoulos Dimitrios
    • Lopez-Martens R.
    • Druon Frédéric
    , 2019.
  • Scattering of ultrashort laser pulses on “ion-sphere” in dense plasmas
    • Rosmej F.B.
    • Astapenko V.A.
    • Lisitsa V.S.
    • Li X.D.
    • Khramov E.S.
    Contributions to Plasma Physics, Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2019, 59 (2), pp.189-196. (10.1002/ctpp.201800062)
    DOI : 10.1002/ctpp.201800062
  • A new energy spectrum reconstruction method for Time-Of-Flight diagnostics of high-energy laser-driven protons
    • Milluzzo G.
    • Scuderi V.
    • Alejo A.
    • Amico A.G.
    • Booth N.
    • Borghesi M.
    • Cirrone G.A.P.
    • Cuttone G.
    • Doria D.
    • Green J.
    • Kar S.
    • Korn G.
    • Larosa G.
    • Leanza R.
    • Margarone D.
    • Martin P.
    • Mckenna P.
    • Petringa G.
    • Pipek J.
    • Romagnani L.
    • Romano F.
    • Russo A.
    • Schillaci F.
    Review of Scientific Instruments, American Institute of Physics, 2019, 90 (8), pp.083303. The Time-of-Flight (TOF) technique coupled with semiconductorlike detectors, as silicon carbide and diamond, is one of the most promising diagnostic methods for high-energy, high repetition rate, laser-accelerated ions allowing a full on-line beam spectral characterization. A new analysis method for reconstructing the energy spectrum of high-energy laser-driven ion beams from TOF signals is hereby presented and discussed. The proposed method takes into account the detector’s working principle, through the accurate calculation of the energy loss in the detector active layer, using Monte Carlo simulations. The analysis method was validated against well-established diagnostics, such as the Thomson parabola spectrometer, during an experimental campaign carried out at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK) with the high-energy laser-driven protons accelerated by the VULCAN Petawatt laser. (10.1063/1.5082746)
    DOI : 10.1063/1.5082746
  • Innovative Education and Training in high power laser plasmas (PowerLaPs) for plasma physics, high power laser–matter interactions and high energy density physics – theory and experiments
    • Pasley John
    • Andrianaki Georgia
    • Baroutsos Andreas
    • Batani Dimitri
    • Benis Emmanouil
    • Borghesi Marco
    • Clark Eugene
    • Cook Donna
    • D’humieres Emmanuel
    • Dimitriou Vasilios
    • Dromey Brendan
    • Ehret Michael
    • Fitilis Ioannis
    • Grigoriadis Anastasios
    • Kar Satya
    • Kaselouris Evaggelos
    • Klimo Ondrej
    • Koenig Michel
    • Kosma Kyriaki
    • Koundourakis George
    • Kucharik Milan
    • Lavery Aveen
    • Limpouch Jiri
    • Orphanos Yannis
    • Papadogiannis Nektarios
    • Petrakis Stelios
    • Riley Dave
    • Serena Rivetta Maria
    • Tejada Pascual Laura
    • Jorge Santos João
    • Skoulakis Alexandros
    • Tazes Ioannis
    • Tikhonchuk Vladimir
    • Trela Jocelain
    • Tsitou Calliope
    • Volpe Luca
    • White Steven
    • Yeung Mark
    • Tatarakis Michael
    High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 7. (10.1017/hpl.2019.7)
    DOI : 10.1017/hpl.2019.7
  • Supersonic plasma turbulence in the laboratory
    • White T. G
    • Oliver M T
    • Mabey P.
    • Kühn-Kauffeldt M.
    • Bott A. F. A.
    • Döhl L. N K
    • Bell A. R
    • Bingham R.
    • Clarke R.
    • Foster J.
    • Giacinti G.
    • Graham P.
    • Heathcote R.
    • Koenig M.
    • Kuramitsu Y.
    • Lamb D. Q
    • Meinecke J.
    • Michel Th
    • Miniati F.
    • Notley M.
    • Reville B.
    • Ryu D.
    • Sarkar S.
    • Sakawa Y.
    • Selwood M. P
    • Squire J.
    • Scott R. H H
    • Tzeferacos P.
    • Woolsey N.
    • Schekochihin A. A
    • Gregori G.
    Nature Communications, Nature Publishing Group, 2019, 10, pp.1758. The properties of supersonic, compressible plasma turbulence determine the behavior of many terrestrial and astrophysical systems. In the interstellar medium and molecular clouds, compressible turbulence plays a vital role in star formation and the evolution of our galaxy. Observations of the density and velocity power spectra in the Orion B and Perseus molecular clouds show large deviations from those predicted for incompressible turbulence. Hydro-dynamic simulations attribute this to the high Mach number in the interstellar medium (ISM), although the exact details of this dependence are not well understood. Here we investigate experimentally the statistical behavior of boundary-free supersonic turbulence created by the collision of two laser-driven high-velocity turbulent plasma jets. The Mach number dependence of the slopes of the density and velocity power spectra agree with astrophysical observations, and supports the notion that the turbulence transitions from being Kolmogorov-like at low Mach number to being more Burgers-like at higher Mach numbers. (10.1038/s41467-019-09498-y)
    DOI : 10.1038/s41467-019-09498-y
  • DNA DSB Repair Dynamics following Irradiation with Laser-Driven Protons at Ultra-High Dose Rates
    • Hantonl F.
    • Chaudhary P.
    • Doria D.
    • Gwynne D.
    • Maiorino C.
    • Scullion C.
    • Ahmed H.
    • Marshall T.
    • Naughton K.
    • Romagnani L.
    • Kar S.
    • Schettino G.
    • Mckenna P.
    • Botchway S.
    • Symes D. R
    • Rajeev P.
    • Prise K. M
    • Borghesi M.
    Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, 2019, 9 (1), pp.4471. Protontherapy has emerged as more effective in the treatment of certain tumors than photon based therapies. However, significant capital and operational costs make protontherapy less accessible. This has stimulated interest in alternative proton delivery approaches, and in this context the use of laser-based technologies for the generation of ultra-high dose rate ion beams has been proposed as a prospective route. A better understanding of the radiobiological effects at ultra-high dose-rates is important for any future clinical adoption of this technology. In this study, we irradiated human skin fibroblasts-AG01522B cells with laser-accelerated protons at a dose rate of 109 Gy/s, generated using the Gemini laser system at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK. We studied DNA double strand break (DSB) repair kinetics using the p53 binding protein-1(53BP1) foci formation assay and observed a close similarity in the 53BP1 foci repair kinetics in the cells irradiated with 225 kVp X-rays and ultra- high dose rate protons for the initial time points. At the microdosimetric scale, foci per cell per track values showed a good correlation between the laser and cyclotron-accelerated protons indicating similarity in the DNA DSB induction and repair, independent of the time duration over which the dose was delivered. (10.1038/s41598-019-40339-6)
    DOI : 10.1038/s41598-019-40339-6
  • Characterization of suprathermal electrons inside a laser accelerated plasma via highly-resolved K⍺-emission
    • Šmíd M.
    • Renner O.
    • Colaitis A.
    • Tikhonchuk V.
    • Schlegel T.
    • Rosmej F.
    Nature Communications, Nature Publishing Group, 2019, 10, pp.4212. Suprathermal electrons are routinely generated in high-intensity laser produced plasmas via instabilities driven by non-linear laser-plasma interaction. Their accurate characterization is crucial for the performance of inertial confinement fusion as well as for performing experiments in laboratory astrophysics and in general high-energy-density physics. Here, we present studies of non-thermal atomic states excited by suprathermal electrons in kJ-ns-laser produced plasmas. Highly spatially and spectrally resolved X-ray emission from the laser-deflected part of the warm dense Cu foil visualized the hot electrons. A multi-scale two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulation including non-linear laser-plasma interactions and hot electron propagation has provided an input for ab initio non-thermal atomic simulations. The analysis revealed a significant delay between the maximum of laser pulse and presence of suprathermal electrons. Agreement between spectroscopic signatures and simulations demonstrates that combination of advanced high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy and non-thermal atomic physics offers a promising method to characterize suprathermal electrons inside the solid density matter. (10.1038/s41467-019-12008-9)
    DOI : 10.1038/s41467-019-12008-9
  • Adaptive SIMD optimizations in particle-in-cell codes with fine-grain particle sorting
    • Beck Arnaud
    • Dérouillat Julien
    • Lobet Mathieu
    • Farjallah Asma
    • Massimo Francesco
    • Zemzemi Imen
    • Perez Frédéric
    • Vinci Tommaso
    • Grech Mickael
    Computer Physics Communications, Elsevier, 2019, 244, pp.246-263. Particle-In-Cell (PIC) codes are broadly applied to the kinetic simulation of plasmas, from laser–matter interaction to astrophysics. Their heavy simulation cost can be mitigated by using the Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) capability,or vectorization, now available on most architectures. This article details and discusses the vectorization strategy developed in the code Smilei which takes advantage from an efficient, systematic, cell-based sorting of the particles. The PIC operators on particles (projection, push, deposition) have been optimized to benefit from large SIMD vectors on both recent and older architectures. The efficiency of these vectorized operations increases with the number of particles per cell (PPC), typically speeding up three-dimensional simulations by a factor 2 with 256 PPC. Although this implementation shows acceleration from as few as 8 PPC, it can be slower than the scalar version in domains containing fewer PPC as usually observed in vectorization attempts. This issue is overcome with an adaptive algorithm which switches locally between scalar (for few PPC) and vectorized operators (otherwise). The newly implemented methods are benchmarked on three different, large-scale simulations considering configurations frequently studied with PIC codes. (10.1016/j.cpc.2019.05.001)
    DOI : 10.1016/j.cpc.2019.05.001
  • Jacques Dumont, Socio-histoire et épistémologie des activités physiques et sportives , Paris, Ellipses coll. « Objectif STAPS », 2017, 259 p.
    • Fuchs Julien
    STAPS : Revue internationale des sciences du sport et de l'éducation physique, De Boeck Supérieur, 2019, n°126 (4), pp.173-174. (10.3917/sta.126.0173)
    DOI : 10.3917/sta.126.0173
  • First commissioning results of the Apollon laser on the 1 PW beam line
    • Papadopoulos Dimitris
    • Zou Ji-Ping
    • Le Blanc Catherine
    • Ranc Lucas
    • Druon Frederic
    • Martin Luc
    • Fréneaux A.
    • Beluze A.
    • Lebas Nathalie
    • Chabanis M.
    • Bonnin C.
    • Accary J.
    • Garrec B.
    • Mathieu François
    • Audebert P.
    , 2017, 42 (18), pp.STu3E.4. (10.1364/CLEO_SI.2019.STu3E.4)
    DOI : 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2019.STu3E.4
  • Characterizing the ionization potential depression in dense carbon plasmas with high-precision spectrally resolved x-ray scattering
    • Kraus Dominik
    • Bachmann B.
    • Barbrel Benjamin
    • Falcone R.
    • Fletcher L.B.
    • Frydrych S.
    • Gamboa E.J.
    • Gauthier Maxence
    • Gericke D.
    • Glenzer S.H.
    • Gode S.
    • Granados E.
    • Hartley, Nj
    • Helfrich J.
    • Lee H.J.
    • Nagler B.
    • Ravasio Alessandra
    • Schumaker W.
    • Vorberger J.
    • Döppner T
    Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, IOP Publishing, 2019, 61 (1), pp.014015. (10.1088/1361-6587/aadd6c)
    DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/aadd6c
  • Maser radiation from collisionless shocks: application to astrophysical jets
    • Speirs D.
    • Ronald K.
    • Phelps A. D.R.
    • Koepke M.
    • Cairns R. A.
    • Rigby A.
    • Cruz F.
    • Trines R.
    • Bamford R.
    • J. Kellett B.
    • Albertazzi Bruno
    • Cross J.
    • Fraschetti F.
    • Graham P.
    • Kozlowski P. m.
    • Kuramitsu Y.
    • Miniati F.
    • Morita T.
    • Oliver M.
    • Reville B.
    • Sakawa Y.
    • Sarkar S.
    • Spindloe C.
    • Koenig M.
    • Silva L. o.
    • Lamb D. q.
    • Tzeferacos P.
    • Lebedev S.
    • Gregori G.
    • Bingham R.
    High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 7. (10.1017/hpl.2019.3)
    DOI : 10.1017/hpl.2019.3
  • Electromagnetic Simulations of Solar Radio Emissions
    • Henri Pierre
    • Sgattoni A.
    • Briand C.
    • Amiranoff François
    • Riconda C.
    Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics, American Geophysical Union/Wiley, 2019, 124 (3), pp.1475-1490. Solar radio emissions are electromagnetic waves emitted in the solar wind as a consequence of electron beams accelerated during solar flares or interplanetary shocks such as ICMEs. Different physical mechanisms have been suggested to describe their origin. A good understanding of the emission process would enable to infer the kinetic energy transferred from accelerated electrons to radio waves. Even if the electrostatic case has been extensively studied, full electromagnetic simulations were attempted only recently. In this work, we report large scale 2D‐3V electromagnetic PIC simulations that enable to identify the generation of both electrostatic and electromagnetic waves originated by a succession of plasma instabilities. They confirm that an efficient mechanism to generate solar radio emissions close to T2f, the harmonic of the plasma frequency, is a multi‐stage model based on a succession of non‐linear three‐wave interaction processes. Through a parametric study of the electron beam parameters, we show that (i) the global efficiency of the multi‐step conversion mechanism from the electron‐beam kinetic energy to the T2f radio wave is independent from the beam parameters, approximately 10‐5 in all tested configurations, while (ii) the directivity of the electromagnetic radio wave strongly depends on the origin electron‐beam. Those results represent a step forward toward the use of solar wind radio emissions, observed remotely, as a diagnostic for the properties of the electron beam located at the source of the radio emission, and therefore to eventually better characterize remotely electron acceleration mechanisms in space regions not directly accessible to in situ measurements. (10.1029/2018JA025707)
    DOI : 10.1029/2018JA025707
  • Ab initio calculations of the B1-B2 phase transition in MgO
    • Bouchet J.
    • Bottin F.
    • Recoules V.
    • Remus F.
    • Morard G.
    • Bolis R. M
    • Benuzzi-Mounaix A.
    Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), American Physical Society, 2019, 99 (9), pp.094113. We present an ab initio study of MgO at high temperature and pressure, around the phase transition between the B1 and B2 phases. By means of ab initio molecular dynamic calculations, the thermal evolution of vibrational properties and thermodynamic quantities are obtained. We carefully compare our results with previous theoretical works on the phase transition curve and we analyse the differences among them. We show that anharmonic effects have been underestimated in the quasiharmonic approximation and that their inclusion in the free energy strongly straighten up the transition curve. Then we use our B1-B2 phase boundary and our calculated Hugoniot to analyze recent decaying shock experiments on MgO. We also provide important thermodynamic quantities as the Grüneisen parameter and sound velocities and we discussed their temperature dependence. (10.1103/PhysRevB.99.094113)
    DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.99.094113
  • Laser-driven shock compression of “synthetic planetary mixtures” of water, ethanol, and ammonia
    • Guarguaglini M.
    • Hernandez J.-A.
    • Okuchi T.
    • Barroso P.
    • Benuzzi-Mounaix A.
    • Bethkenhagen M.
    • Bolis R. M
    • Brambrink E.
    • French M.
    • Fujimoto Y.
    • Kodama R.
    • Koenig M.
    • Lefevre F.
    • Miyanishi K.
    • Ozaki N.
    • Redmer R.
    • Sano T.
    • Umeda Y.
    • Vinci T.
    • Ravasio A.
    Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, 2019, 9, pp.10155. Water, methane, and ammonia are commonly considered to be the key components of the interiors of Uranus and Neptune. Modelling the planets’ internal structure, evolution, and dynamo heavily relies on the properties of the complex mixtures with uncertain exact composition in their deep interiors. Therefore, characterising icy mixtures with varying composition at planetary conditions of several hundred gigapascal and a few thousand Kelvin is crucial to improve our understanding of the ice giants. In this work, pure water, a water-ethanol mixture, and a water-ethanol-ammonia “synthetic planetary mixture” (SPM) have been compressed through laser-driven decaying shocks along their principal Hugoniot curves up to 270, 280, and 260 GPa, respectively. Measured temperatures spanned from 4000 to 25000 K, just above the coldest predicted adiabatic Uranus and Neptune profiles (3000–4000 K) but more similar to those predicted by more recent models including a thermal boundary layer (7000–14000 K). The experiments were performed at the GEKKO XII and LULI2000 laser facilities using standard optical diagnostics (Doppler velocimetry and optical pyrometry) to measure the thermodynamic state and the shock-front reflectivity at two different wavelengths. The results show that water and the mixtures undergo a similar compression path under single shock loading in agreement with Density Functional Theory Molecular Dynamics (DFT-MD) calculations using the Linear Mixing Approximation (LMA). On the contrary, their shock-front reflectivities behave differently by what concerns both the onset pressures and the saturation values, with possible impact on planetary dynamos. (10.1038/s41598-019-46561-6)
    DOI : 10.1038/s41598-019-46561-6
  • Evaluation of missense and splicing in silico predictions tools and implementation of an efficient SNV prioritization NGS pipeline for molecular diagnosis of Myopathies and Muscular Dystrophies
    • Yauy K.
    • Baux David
    • Pegeot H.
    • van Goethem C.
    • Mathieu C.
    • Guignard T.
    • Morales R. Juntas
    • Lacourt D.
    • Krahn Martin
    • Lektokari V.
    • Bonne G.
    • Tuffery-Giraud Sylvie
    • Koenig M.
    • Cossee M.
    European Journal of Human Genetics, Nature Publishing Group, 2019, 27 (1), pp.339. (10.1038/s41431-019-0404-7)
    DOI : 10.1038/s41431-019-0404-7
  • Spatiotemporal aberrations introduced by thermal effects in a grating compressor of a PW laser
    • Ranc Lucas
    • Mazzotta Zeudi
    • Lebas Nathalie
    • Leblanc Catherine
    • Zou Ji Ping
    • Martin Luc
    • Mathieu François
    • Druon Frédéric
    • Papadopoulos Dimitris
    , 2019, pp.AW3A.2. (10.1364/ASSL.2019.AW3A.2)
    DOI : 10.1364/ASSL.2019.AW3A.2
  • Dynamics of the Electromagnetic Fields Induced by Fast Electron Propagation in Near-Solid-Density Media
    • Romagnani Lorenzo
    • Robinson A.P.L.
    • Clarke R.J.
    • Doria D.
    • Lancia Livia
    • Nazarov W.
    • Notley M.M.
    • Pipahl A.
    • Quinn Karen
    • Ramakrishna B.
    • Wilson Puthenparampil
    • Fuchs Julien
    • Willi Oswald
    • Borghesi Marco
    Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 2019, 122 (2). (10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.025001)
    DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.025001
  • Development of gas jet targets for laser-plasma experiments at near-critical density
    • Henares J.L.
    • Puyuelo-Valdes P.
    • Hannachi F.
    • Ceccotti T.
    • Ehret M.
    • Gobet F.
    • Lancia L.
    • Marquès J.-R.
    • Santos J.J.
    • Versteegen M.
    • Tarisien M.
    Review of Scientific Instruments, American Institute of Physics, 2019, 90 (6), pp.063302. Computational fluid dynamics simulations are performed to design gas nozzles, associated with a 1000 bars backing pressure system, capable of generating supersonic gas jet targets with densities close to the critical density for 1053 nm laser radiation (10$^{21}$ cm$^{-3}$). Such targets should be suitable for laser-driven ion acceleration at a high repetition rate. The simulation results are compared to the density profiles measured by interferometry, and characterization of the gas jet dynamics is performed using strioscopy. Proton beams with maximum energies up to 2 MeV have been produced from diatomic hydrogen gas jet targets in a first experiment. (10.1063/1.5093613)
    DOI : 10.1063/1.5093613
  • Multispectral wavefront sensor for Petawatt class compressor alignment and optimisation
    • Ranc Lucas
    • Le Blanc Catherine
    • Zou Ji-Ping
    • Levecq Xavier
    • Druon Frédéric
    • Papadopoulos Dimitrios
    , 2019, pp.JM5A.30. (10.1364/ASSL.2019.JM5A.30)
    DOI : 10.1364/ASSL.2019.JM5A.30
  • Experimental investigation of the collective stimulated Brillouin and Raman scattering of multiple laser beams in Inertial Confinement Fusion experiments
    • Depierreux Sylvie
    • Neuville Cedric
    • Tassin Veronique
    • Monteil Marie-Christine
    • Masson-Laborde Paul-Edouard
    • Baccou Claire
    • Fremerye Pascale
    • Philippe Franck
    • Seytor Patricia
    • Teychenné Denis
    • Katz Joe
    • Bahr Ray
    • Casanova Michel
    • Borisenko Nataliya
    • Borisenko Lidia
    • Orekhov Andrey
    • Colaitis Arnaud
    • Debayle Arnaud
    • Duchateau Guillaume
    • Héron Anne
    • Hüller Stefan
    • Loiseau Pascal
    • Nicolai Philippe
    • Riconda Caterina
    • Tran Guillaume
    • Stoeckl Christian
    • Seka Wolf
    • Tikhonchuk Vladimir T.
    • Pesme Denis
    • Labaune Christine
    Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, IOP Publishing, 2019. (10.1088/1361-6587/ab5acd)
    DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ab5acd
  • Efficient start-to-end 3D envelope modeling for two-stage laser wakefield acceleration experiments
    • Massimo Francesco
    • Beck Arnaud
    • Dérouillat Julien
    • Grech Mickael
    • Lobet Mathieu
    • Pérez Frédéric
    • Zemzemi Imen
    • Specka Arnd
    Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, IOP Publishing, 2019, 61 (12), pp.124001. Three dimensional particle in cell simulations of laser wakefield acceleration require a considerable amount of resources but are necessary to have realistic predictions and to design future experiments. The planned experiments for the Apollon laser also include two stages of plasma acceleration, for a total plasma length of the order of tens of millimeters or centimeters. In this context, where traditional 3D numerical simulations would be computationally very expensive, we present the results of the application of a recently proposed envelope method, to describe the laser pulse and its interaction with the plasma without the need to resolve its high frequency oscillations. The implementation of this model in the code Smilei is described, as well as the results of benchmark simulations against standard laser simulations and applications for the design of two stage Apollon experiments. (10.1088/1361-6587/ab49cf)
    DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ab49cf