The hard copy of the Annual Report 2016-2017 contains a short synopsis of each article.

Where available, full articles are available to download below. In some cases, a link is provided to the published version.

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Foreword (PDF – 73KB – link opens in a new window)

Overview (PDF – 53KB – link opens in a new window)

Economic Impact (PDF – 41KB – link opens in a new window)

Outreach (PDF – 282KB – link opens in a new window)

Full articles

High Energy Density & High Intensity Physics (PDF containing synopsis of each article – 489KB – link opens in a new window)

  1. High fidelity parameter scans in a 5 Hz plasma wakefield accelerator (01 – Streeter – 800KB – link opens in a new window)
  2. Genetic algorithm optimization of x-ray emission from laser-cluster interactions (02 – Eardley – 256KB – link opens in a new window)
  3. Influence of laser polarization on collective electron dynamics in ultraintense laser-foil interactions (03 – McKenna 1 – link opens in a new window)
  4. Towards optical polarization control of laser-driven proton acceleration in foils undergoing relativistic transparency (04 – McKenna 2 – link opens in a new window)
  5. Investigation on material and timing influences on high-reflective double-pulsed plasma mirrors with emphasis on scale length absorption control (05 – Indorf – 707KB – link opens in a new window)
  6. 2D hydrodynamic simulations of a variable length gas target for density down-ramp injection of electrons into a gas laser wakefield accelerator (06 – Kononenko – link opens in a new window)
  7. Absolute calibration of Thomson Parabola Micro Channel Plate for multi-MeV carbon ions (07 – McIlvenny – 2157KB – link opens in a new window)
  8. Spectral and spatial characterisation of laser-driven positron beams (08 – Sarri – link opens in a new window)
  9. Angularly resolved characterization of ion beams from laser-ultrathin foil interactions (09 – Borghesi – link opens in a new window)
  10. Spin polarization of electrons interacting with ultra-intense laser pulses (10 – Seipt – 477KB – link opens in a new window)
  11. Breaking of dynamical adiabaticity in direct laser acceleration of electrons (11 – Robinson – link opens in a new window)
  12. Experimental observation of thin-shell instability in a collisionless plasma (12 – Ahmed – link opens in a new window)
  13. Numerical study of neutron beam divergence in a beam-fusion scenario employing laser driven ions (13 – Alejo Kar – link opens in a new window)
  14. Evaluating laser-driven bremsstrahlung radiation sources for imaging and analysis of nuclear waste packages (14 – Brenner – link opens in a new window)
  15. Experimental measurements of the collisional absorption of XUV radiation in warm dense aluminium (15 – Kettle – link opens in a new window)
  16. TOF-based diagnosis of high-energy laser-accelerated protons using diamond detectors (16 – Milluzzo – 617KB – link opens in a new window)
  17. Intra-pulse transition between ion acceleration mechanisms in intense laser-foil interactions (17 – McKenna 3 – link opens in a new window)
  18. Proton probing of the reconnecting magnetic fields surrounding two adjacent, high-intensity laser interactions (18 – Palmer – 3655KB – link opens in a new window)
  19. Measurements of electromagnetic pulses generated from ultra-thin targets at Vulcan Petawatt (19 – Raczka – 408KB – link opens in a new window)
  20. Escaping electron measurement in laser-solid interactions on Vulcan Target Area West (20 – Zhang – 1374KB – link opens in a new window)

 

Laser Science & Development (PDF containing synopsis of each article – 429KB – link opens in a new window)

  1. Laser shock peening of aluminium and titanium using the DiPOLE laser system (21 – Banerjee – 582KB – link opens in a new window)
  2. Impact of gas cluster ion and accelerated neutral atom beam surface treatments on the LIDT of ceramic Yb:YAG (22 – De Vido – 795KB – link opens in a new window)
  3. The prospect of a kW-class, multi-TW, ps laser (23 – Ertel – 686KB – link opens in a new window)
  4. Frequency conversion at 5.5 J, 10 Hz with an LBO crystal in DiPOLE for greater than 4 hours operation (24 – Phillips – 576KB – link opens in a new window)
  5. Engineering upgrades to the DiPOLE-100 laser system for the D100X project (25 – Tomlinson – 509KB – link opens in a new window)
  6. Progress on implementation of a cross-polarised wave generation temporal filter for the Gemini laser (26 – Cheklov – 501KB – link opens in a new window)
  7. Gemini Facility improvements (27 – Hooker – 556KB – link opens in a new window)
  8. Software developments in Gemini (28 – Marshall – 743KB – link opens in a new window)
  9. Operation of Gemini Target Area 2 at 5 Hz repetition rate (29 – Symes – 3275KB – link opens in a new window)
  10. LIGA and its potential application to High Power Laser Science (30 – Arthur – 945KB – link opens in a new window)
  11. Characterisation of the oxide effects on aluminium opacity targets (31 – Haddock – 1089KB – link opens in a new window)
  12. LA4/Vulcan pointing mismatch investigation (32 – Ahmed – 323KB – link opens in a new window)
  13. Vulcan laser timing system upgrade (33 – Pepler – 460KB – link opens in a new window)
  14. Observation of harmonic conversion efficiency clamping for nanosecond pulses due to wavefront distortion in Nd:Glass amplifier systems (34 – Shaikh – 556KB – link opens in a new window)
  15. Design and implementation of a test compressor for the Vulcan Front End (35 – Wyatt 1 – 796KB – link opens in a new window)
  16. Characterization of highly chirped ultrabroadband optical pulses (36 – Wyatt 2 – 679KB – link opens in a new window)

 

Plasma Diagnostics (PDF containing synopsis of each article – 278KB – link opens in a new window)

  1. Plasma scale length effects on an imaging geometry (37 – Huzan – 475KB – link opens in a new window)
  2. Shielding effectiveness of a copper box against laser driven electromagnetic pulses (38 – Jones 1 – 1709KB – link opens in a new window)
  3. Remote control of delay generators and high voltage output devices from Stanford Research Systems (39 – Jones 2 – 265KB – link opens in a new window)
  4. Absolute calibration of Fujifilm BAS-TR image plate response to high energy protons in the range 10-40 MeV (40 – Martin – 699KB – link opens in a new window)
  5. Monte Carlo simulations of x-ray generation to analyse scintillator spectrometer (41 – Rusby – 1048KB – link opens in a new window)
  6. Time-dependent Nyquist limited Fourier transform analysis of electromagnetic pulse (42 – Selwood – 411KB – link opens in a new window)
  7. Ray tracing investigation of plasma gratings (43 – Neely – 3442KB – link opens in a new window)

 

Ultrafast & XUV Science (PDF containing synopsis of each article – 142KB – link opens in a new window)

  1. Spin-resolved electronic dynamics in bulk WSe2 (44 – Bertoni – 422KB – link opens in a new window)
  2. XUV Ptychographic imaging of mouse hippocampal neurons with 50nm resolution using the Artemis HHG source (45 – Brocklesby – 2285KB – link opens in a new window)
  3. Observing the complete reaction pathway of CS2 dissociation (46 – Chapman – 658KB – link opens in a new window)
  4. Out-of-equilibrium electronic dynamics of the transition metal dichalcogenides MoTe2 and WTe2 (47 – Crepaldi – 637KB – link opens in a new window)
  5. UV-pump-VUV-probe photoelectron spectroscopy experiments at ARTEMIS: unravelling the ultrafast relaxation dynamics of aniline (48 – Fielding – 675KB – link opens in a new window)
  6. Dynamics of correlation-frozen antinodal quasiparticles in superconducting cuprates (49 – Giannetti – link opens in a new window)
  7. Spin and valley control of free carriers in single-layer WS2 (50 – Miwa 1 – link opens in a new window)
  8. Carrier dynamics in a two-dimensional metal (51 – Miwa 2 – 561KB – link opens in a new window)

 

Imaging & Dynamics for Physical & Life Science (PDF containing synopsis of each article – 183KB – link opens in a new window)

  1. Time-resolved studies reveal that DNA photo-oxidation by a Ru(II) polypyridyl complex is highly sensitive to the presence of modified bases (52 – Cardin – 405KB – link opens in a new window)
  2. Vibrational sum frequency generation (VSFG) spectroscopy of electrocatalytic mechanisms (53 – Cowan (abstract only))
  3. Using ANOVA-PCA to facilitate screening of large 2D-IR datasets (54 – Hunt – 467KB – link opens in a new window)
  4. Investigating electron-phonon coupling and re-orientation effects in hybrid lead-halide perovskites (55 – Oliver – 319KB – link opens in a new window)
  5. Femtosecond to microsecond observation of photochemical reaction mechanisms (56 – Orr-Ewing – 608KB – link opens in a new window)
  6. Using surface plasmon resonance excitation to determine real-time distributions of gold nanoparticles in live cells (57 – Botchway – 497KB – link opens in a new window)

 

Operational Statistics (PDF – 512KB – link opens in a new window)

Publications (PDF – 147KB – link opens in a new window)

Panel Membership (PDF – 28KB – link opens in a new window)

CLF Structure (PDF – 271KB – link opens in a new window)

 

Contact: Trines, Raoul (STFC,RAL,CLF)