The hard copy of the Annual Report 2015-2016 contains a short synopsis of each article.

Full articles are available to download below.

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Foreword (PDF – 64KB – link opens in a new window)
Overview (PDF – 67KB – link opens in a new window)
Economic Impact (PDF – 41KB – link opens in a new window)
Outreach (PDF – 285KB – link opens in a new window)

 

Full articles

High Density Energy Science (synopsis of each article) (PDF – 958KB – link opens in a new window)

  1. High flux, beamed neutron sources employing deuteron-rich ion beams from D2O-ice layered targets (PDF – 1976KB – link opens in a new window)
  2. Buffering and spectral control of protons accelerated from relativistically transparent thin foils (PDF – 1474KB – link opens in a new window)
  3. Laser-driven x-ray and neutron source development for industrial applications of plasma accelerators (PDF – 1199KB – link opens in a new window)
  4. Ion acceleration and plasma jet formation in ultra-thin foils undergoing expansion and relativistic transparency (PDF – 667KB – link opens in a new window)
  5. Energy exchange via multi-species streaming in laser-driven ion acceleration (PDF – 1722KB – link opens in a new window)
  6. The complex ion structure of warm dense carbon measured by spectrally resolved x-ray scattering (only abstract available)
  7. Selective deuterium ion acceleration using the Vulcan Petawatt laser (PDF – 856KB -link opens in a new window)
  8. Effects of pulse duration, energy and target type on the frequencies of electromagnetic pulses in a petawatt laser system (PDF – 822KB -link opens in a new window)
  9. Measurement of the angle, temperature and flux of fast electrons emitted from intense laser-solid interactions (PDF – 760KB -link opens in a new window)
  10. Optimization of plasma mirror reflectivity and optical quality using double laser pulses (PDF – 1557KB -link opens in a new window)
  11. Ellipsoidal plasma mirror focusing of high power laser pulses to ultra-high intensities (PDF – 1642KB -link opens in a new window)
  12. Dependence of target-rear-surface transverse plasma expansion on laser polarisation (PDF – 814KB -link opens in a new window)
  13. High resolution imaging of embryonic mouse samples with a laser-driven betatron x-ray source (PDF – 5811KB – link opens in a new window)
  14. Laser-wakefield accelerators as hard x-ray sources for 3D medical imaging of human bone (PDF – 2464KB – link opens in a new window)
  15. Modelling of a plasma mirror for a laser plasma wakefield staging experiment (PDF – 663KB – link opens in a new window)
  16. Optically controlled dense current structures driven by relativistic plasma aperture-induced diffraction (PDF – 1672KB – link opens in a new window)
  17. Plasma wakefield diagnostics with oblique crossing angle probe (PDF – 303KB -link opens in a new window)
  18. Measurement of the LWFA betatron source length by cross-correlations over images of granular random targets (PDF  – 12616KB – opens in a new window)
  19. Enhancement of laser wakefield acceleration generated electron beam energies on Gemini by employing f/40 focusing (PDF– 3410KB -link opens in a new window)
  20. Investigating the effects of clustering in a laser wakefield accelerator (PDF – 2303KB – link opens in a new window)
  21. Density measurements in shock-compressed aluminium via betatron x-ray radiography (PDF – 8096KB – link opens in a new window)
  22. Calibration of the CLF Andor iKon indirect detection x-ray camera (PDF – 1398KB – link opens in a new window)
  23. Laser-driven plasma acceleration in a regime of strong mismatch between the incident laser envelope and the nonlinear plasma response (only abstract available)
  24. Use of Raman forward scatter for seeding a plasma amplifier (PDF – 345KB – link opens in a new window)
  25. Enhanced betatron radiation from a laser wakefield accelerator in a long focal length geometry (PDF – 5688KB – link opens in a new window)

 

Dynamics and Spectroscopy (synopsis of each article) (PDF – 273KB – link opens in a new window)

  1. Vibrational fingerprinting of protochlorophyllide analogues and implications for the photochemical synthesis of chlorophyll (PDF– 532KB – link opens in a new window)
  2. Exploring DNA with 2D-IR ‑ spectroscopy, dynamics and ligand binding (PDF – 935KB – link opens in a new window)
  3. Observation of multiple steps in radical reactions on femtosecond to microsecond timescales (PDF – 663KB – link opens in a new window)
  4. Long-wavelength laser-driven ultrafast magnetization dynamics in gadolinium (PDF – 429KB – link opens in a new window)
  5. Time resolved photoelectron imaging with an XUV high harmonic source (PDF – 458KB – link opens in a new window)
  6. Decay dynamics of conduction band electrons on hydroxylated TiO2 (only abstract available)

 

Laser Science & Development (synopsis of each article) (PDF – 648KB – link opens in a new window)

  1. ULTRA/ARTEMIS – 100 kHz high power OPCPA progress report (PDF – 616KB – link opens in a new window)
  2. Short-wave infrared few cycle pulse generation and characterization for high harmonic generation in the water window (PDF – 706KB – link opens in a new window)
  3. A new long pulse beamline for the Gemini facility (PDF – 764KB – link opens in a new window)
  4. Recent improvements to the Gemini laser (PDF – 540KB – link opens in a new window)
  5. Software developments on Gemini (only abstract available)
  6. Measurement of femtosecond-scale drift and jitter of the delay between North and South beams of Gemini (PDF – 1110KB – link opens in a new window)
  7. Progress on delivery of a cross-polarised wave generation temporal filter for the Gemini laser (PDF – 557KB – link opens in a new window)
  8. Magnetic detection by longitudinal and transverse MOKE at Artemis (PDF – 199KB – link opens in a new window)
  9. Adhesive-free bonded crystalline Yb:YAG for high energy laser applications (PDF – 780KB – link opens in a new window)
  10. Fast beam stabilisation of a large diameter CW laser in its far field using 3 inch piezo mounted mirrors (PDF – 514KB – link opens in a new window)
  11. 20 W upgrade to the ULTRA facility (PDF – 492KB – link opens in a new window)
  12. Recent developments in the Thomson Parabola Spectrometer diagnostic for laser-driven multi-species ion sources (PDF – 1769KB – link opens in a new window)
  13. Detector for imaging and dosimetry of laser-driven epithermal neutrons by alpha conversion (PDF – 1146KB – link opens in a new window)
  14. Measurement of the x-ray emission source size from solid targets irradiated with intense laser pulses (PDF – 1293KB – link opens in a new window)
  15. Optimal resolution for a fibre bundle imaging system using a phosphorus based pinhole camera (PDF – 3844KB – link opens in a new window)
  16. Surface roughness of NaCl coating used in thin film production (PDF – 990KB – link opens in a new window)
  17. MEMS fabrication of silicon microwire targets (PDF – 555KB – link opens in a new window)
  18. Target characterisation and pre-alignment for the HAMS high throughput targetry system (PDF–  930KB – link opens in a new window)
  19. DiPOLE100 – world’s first diode pumped kilowatt average power 100J-level laser (PDF – 1359KB – link opens in a new window)
  20. Factors affecting the quality of electroplated high power laser target foils (PDF – 1131KB – link opens in a new window)
  21. Commissioning of a new diamond turning capability for STFC (PDF – 639KB – link opens in a new window)
  22. A stable ultra-broadband OPG/OPA source for the testing of 10 petawatt Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifiers (PDF – 404KB – link opens in a new window)
  23. Frequency doubling experiments carried out on the DiPOLE-10amplifier at CLF (PDF – 843KB – link opens in a new window)

 

Life and Science Imaging (synopsis of each article) (PDF – 80KB – link opens in a new window)

  1. In situ visualisation of uniform rectangular platelet micelles using Structured Illumination Microscopy (PDF – 613KB – link opens in a new window)
  2. Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) as an approach to functionally dissect periodic membrane structures in neuronal axons (PDF – 802KB – link opens in a new window)
  3. Determining the geometry of EGFR oligomers via fluorophore localization imaging with photobleaching (PDF – 553KB – link opens in a new window)

 

Operational Statistics (PDF – 505KB – link opens in a new window)
Publications (PDF – 85KB – link opens in a new window)
Panel membership & CLF Structure (PDF – 388KB – link opens in a new window)

Contact: Trines, Raoul (STFC,RAL,CLF