We report on the operating parameters and laser output pulse characteristics of an extremely compact discharge-pumped 46.9-nm laser of a size comparable with that of many widely utilized visible and ultraviolet gas lasers. This capillary-discharge laser generated subnanosecond laser pulses with energies of as much as 25microJ by single-pass amplification in an 18.6-cm-long argon-plasma column. ...

We present a two stage Inverse Free Electron Laser accelerator proposed for construction at the UCLA Neptune Lab. Proof-of -principle experiments on the IFEL scheme have been carried out successfully. This experiment is intended to achieve a 100 MeV energy gain, staging two IFEL modules. It will use a 16 MeV electron beam, a 1 TW CO2 laser and two different tapered helical undulators. The probl...

Introduction: Low-energy helium-neon (He-Ne) laser beam lightis used in combination with sodium hypochlorite (Na2HOCl3) for clinical purposes. Regarding this, the present study aimed to investigate the effect of He-Ne laser (632.8 nm) and sodium hypochlorite on the calf thymus double-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid (ctdsDNA) molecule.  Materials and Methods: For the purpose of the study, ctdsDNA...

The Central Laser Facility is located near the middle of the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina. It features a UV laser and optics that direct a beam of calibrated pulsed light into the sky. Light scattered from this beam produces tracks in the Auger optical detectors which normally record nitrogen fluorescence tracks from cosmic ray air showers. The Central Laser Facility provides a ”test b...

as the turbine industries need to manufacture turbine blades made of martensitic stainless steel aisi 420 with high toughness and wear resistance, local laser hardening has become more and more important. in this research, surface of the samples was initially hardened by high-power pulsed laser beam; then, optimum parameters of hardening were calculated and wear resistance of surface hardened s...

A novel approach of laser-driven acceleration with Bessel beam is presented in this paper. Bessel beam, in contrast to the Gaussian beam, demonstrates “diffractionfree” characteristics in its propagation, which implies potential in laser-driven acceleration. A configuration of Bessel beam truncated by a set of annular slits makes several special regions in its travelling path, where the laser f...

The performance of laser machining systems can often be improved by adjusting the intensity profile of the beam on the target. Shaping a laser intensity profile can be efficiently accomplished by adjusting the spatial phase of the beam before propagating the beam a distance to the target. Beam shaping can be accomplished with passive diffractive elements, but this technique is only capable of c...

Because laser applications are found in a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines, the dynamics of wavefields associated with laser beams are of special interest in the undergraduate physics curricula. One problem arises when a laser beam is to be shaped to a particular profile. For most applications, it is desirable that most of the laser energy be confined to a small spot. Many...

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The collective response of electrons in an ultrathin foil target irradiated by an ultraintense (∼6 × 1020 W cm−2) laser pulse is investigated experimentally and via 3D particle-in-cell simulations. It is shown that if the target is sufficiently thin that the laser induces significant radiation pressure, but not thin enough to become relativistically transparent to the laser light, the resulting...