The CLF Annual Report 2013-2014 contains a short synopsis of each article.
Full articles are included on an accompanying CD Rom and available to download below.

​Full articles

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High Intensity/Energy Science

  1. 1 The evolution of plasma shock waves on the submicrosecond timescales
  2. 2 Single Photon Energy Dispersive X-ray Diffraction (SPEDX)
  3. 3 Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration in a Hybrid RPA-TNSA Regime
  4. 4 Magnetic Field Dynamics during Intense Laser Channeling in Underdense Plasma
  5. 7 Proton spectra calculation from Radiochromic Film stacks with high-energy proton correction
  6. 6 Diagnosis of high-energy photon emission during imaging experiments using copper activation techniques
  7. 7 Detection of laser driven deuterium ions by employing differentially filtered image plate detectors in Thomson Spetrometers
  8. 8 M-L band emission x-rays (3-3.5KeV) from palladium coated targets for isochoric radiative heating of thin foil sample
  9. 9 High efficiency proton beam generation through target thickness control in femtosecond laser-plasma interactions
  10. 10Investigation of collective electron dynamics in relativistically transparent laser plasma interactions
  11. 11 Polarisation dependence of ion acceleration from ultrathin foils
  12. 12 Cell irradiation with laser-driven proton and carbon ions
  13. 13 Inhibition of self-injection by ionisation injection
  14. 14 Laser driven x-ray imaging of human trabecular bone
  15. 15 Femtosecond-scale synchronisation of ultra-intense focused laser beams
  16. 16 A Compact Short-Pulse Bremsstrahlung Source from LWFA Electrons
  17. 17 Broadband measurements of transition radiation at Astra-Gemini

Dynamics and Spectroscopy

  1. 18 Directly Observing the Ultrafast Dynamics of Massive Dirac Fermions in Bilayer Graphene
  2. 19 Resonant Phonon Excitation in Bilayer Graphene
  3. 20 Photoelectron spectroscopy of methylated benzene
  4. 21 Time-resolved spectroscopic studies of the ultrafast photoisomerisation reaction in cyanobacteriochrome Tlr0924
  5. 22 Ultrafast 2D-IR spectroscopy of nitrosylated haem-proteins using ULTRA
  6. 23 Dynamics of chemical and photochemical reactions in solution
  7. 24 Proteins in Action: Functional Dynamics of Blue Light Sensing Proteins from Femtoseconds to Milliseconds
  8. 25 Photochemical studies of astrophysically relevant molecules on a carbon surface
  9. 26 Towards time-resolved electron diffraction
  10. 27 Production and manipulation of Rydberg positronium for a matter-antimatter gravitational free-fall measurement
  11. 28 Ultrafast carrier dynamics of AlGaInP saturable absorbers
  12. 29 Techniques for Neutral Gas Phase Spectroscopy. Exemplar: The Green Fluorescent Protein Chromophore

Life and Science Imaging

  1. 30 Multiphoton Imaging and Conversion of Combretastatins in 3D Tissue Models
  2. 31 Structure-function relationships and supra-molecular organisation of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) on the cell Surface
  3. 32 Single molecule studies of clathrin-coated vesicle disassembly
  4. 33 Artefacts Caused by Non-Specific Binding of Fluorescent Dyes in Single Molecule Experiments
  5. 34 Redevelopment of the AMO end-station to incorporate a skimmed molecular beam source
  6. 35 XUV generation at 93 eV for coherent actinic imaging of EUVL mask defects
  7. 36 Laser driven x-ray phase-contrast microscopy of soft tissue samples

Theory and Computation

  1. 37 Role of Ionization in DLA-type Fast Electron Generation
  2. 38 Fast Electron Filamentation a broad survey of material and angular initial conditions
  3. 39 Fast particle Bremsstrahlung effects in the PIC code EPOCH: Enhanced diagnostics for laser-solid interaction modelling
  4. 40 Heating in wire-like target using laser-generated fast electrons and the theory of angular rarefaction
  5. 41 On The Influence of Laser-Drive Parameters on Annular Fast Electron Transport in Solids
  6. 42 Study of fast electron transport with femtosecond scale laser pulses
  7. 43 3D simulation of hole-boring radiation pressure acceleration
  8. 44 Light-by-light scattering at low energies
  9. 45 Strong fields and slow light
  10. 46 The effect of quantum radiation reaction on electron motion in ultra-high intensity laser-matter
  11. 47 Modelling radiative-shocks created by laser-cluster interactions
  12. 48 Vorticity Deposition and Density Structure Generation in Colliding Blast Wave Experiments
  13. 49 Characterising the Acceleration Phase of Blast Wave Formation
  14. 50 Weak collisionless shocks in laser-plasmas
  15. 51 Creating Astrophysically Relevant Jets with Locally Heated Targets
  16. 52 The use of the 2D code POLLUX in modelling extreme ultraviolet laser interactions
  17. 53 Efficiency study of harmonic generation from solid targets in the strongly relativistic regime
  18. 54 The R-matrix with time-dependence approach for ultrafast dynamics
  19. 55 Nonequilibrium Effects on the Ionisation Energies in Dense Plasmas
  20. 56A robust plasma-based laser amplifier via stimulated Brillouin scattering
  21. 57 Two-Pulse Ionization Injection into Quasi-Linear Laser Wakefields
  22. 58 Simulation of photon acceleration technique for density measurement in plasma wakefields

Development

  1. 59 LIFEtime: A New Time-Resolved Laser Spectrometer for the Life Sciences
  2. 60 Super resolution developments in the Octopus facility
  3. 61 New front end for the Gemini facility
  4. 62 A New ns OPCPA Front End for Vulcan Petawatt
  5. 63 TAW Long Pulse Facility Upgrades
  6. 64 Experimental setup of the Vulcan HAPPIE Laboratory 2 for spatially and temporally coherent multibeam recombination
  7. 65 48 Hour operation of DiPOLE at 7J at 10 Hz
  8. 66 Delivery of a 100J DiPOLE laser to the HiLASE project: Progress update
  9. 67 HiPER
  10. 68 LIDT Modification Following Debris Damage
  11. 69 In-situ formation of solidified hydrogen thin-membrane targets using a pulse tube cryocooler
  12. 70 Automated Production of High Repetition Rate Foam Targets
  13. 71 Batch Production of Micron-scale Backlighter Targets
  14. 72 Delivery of POLAR Targets to the First Academic Experiment on the Orion Laser Facility
  15. 73 New Laser Safety Interlock System Design using a PSSuniversal PLC Device
  16. 74 Investigation into the limitations of target positioning on Astra-Gemini
  17. 75 The design and characterization of an improved target positioning system
  18. 76 Creating Broadband Circular Polarised Light by Reflection
  19. 77 Investigating Schlieren Microscopy as a Method of Optic Inspection
  20. 78 A Study on the Effects of Aging on Radio Chromic Film
  21. 79 Ray tracing to model time of flight effect in square based pyramid scintillators
  22. 80 A K-alpha Imaging Crystal diagnostic for CLF
  23. 81 Development of a High Repetition X-ray Pinhole Camera
  24. 82 Development of a plug-and-play diagnostics base for faster in-target area experiment setup
  25. 83 Calibration of TOF Detectors Using Short Laser Pulse Generated Neutron Source

 

Contact: Trines, Raoul (STFC,RAL,CLF)