CLF Annual Report 2013-14
12 Mar 2015
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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. The evolution of plasma shock waves on the submicrosecond timescales (PDF - 193kB - link opens in a new window)
  2. Single Photon Energy Dispersive X-ray Diffraction (SPEDX) (PDF - 219kB - link opens in a new window)
  3. Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration in a Hybrid RPA-TNSA Regime (PDF - 707kB - link opens in a new window)
  4. Magnetic Field Dynamics during Intense Laser Channeling in Underdense Plasma (PDF - 320kB - link opens in a new window)
  5. Proton spectra calculation from Radiochromic Film stacks with high-energy proton correction (PDF - 701kB - link opens in a new window)
  6. Diagnosis of high-energy photon emission during imaging experiments using copper activation techniques (PDF - 296kB - link opens in a new window)
  7. Detection of laser driven deuterium ions by employing differentially filtered image plate detectors in Thomson Spetrometers (PDF - 1051kB - link opens in a new window)
  8. M-L band emission x-rays (3-3.5KeV) from palladium coated targets for isochoric radiative heating of thin foil sample (PDF - 489kB - link opens in a new window)
  9. High efficiency proton beam generation through target thickness control in femtosecond laser-plasma interactions (PDF - 241kB - link opens in a new window)
  10. Investigation of collective electron dynamics in relativistically transparent laser plasma interactions (PDF - 749kB - link opens in a new window)
  11. Polarisation dependence of ion acceleration from ultrathin foils (PDF - 400kB - link opens in a new window)
  12. Cell irradiation with laser-driven proton and carbon ions (PDF - 648kB - link opens in a new window)
  13. Inhibition of self-injection by ionisation injection (PDF - 577kB - link opens in a new window)
  14. Laser driven x-ray imaging of human trabecular bone (PDF - 674kB - link opens in a new window)
  15. Femtosecond-scale synchronisation of ultra-intense focused laser beams (PDF - 224kB - link opens in a new window)
  16. A Compact Short-Pulse Bremsstrahlung Source from LWFA Electrons (PDF - 499kB - link opens in a new window)
  17. Broadband measurements of transition radiation at Astra-Gemini (PDF - 829kB - link opens in a new window)

Dynamics and Spectroscopy

  1. Directly Observing the Ultrafast Dynamics of Massive Dirac Fermions in Bilayer Graphene (PDF - 3665kB - link opens in a new window)
  2. Resonant Phonon Excitation in Bilayer Graphene (PDF - 420kB - link opens in a new window)
  3. Photoelectron spectroscopy of methylated benzene (PDF - 135kB - link opens in a new window)
  4. Time-resolved spectroscopic studies of the ultrafast photoisomerisation reaction in cyanobacteriochrome Tlr0924 (PDF - 916kB - link opens in a new window)
  5. Ultrafast 2D-IR spectroscopy of nitrosylated haem-proteins using ULTRA (PDF - 194kB - link opens in a new window)
  6. Dynamics of chemical and photochemical reactions in solution (PDF - 278kB - link opens in a new window)
  7. Proteins in Action: Functional Dynamics of Blue Light Sensing Proteins from Femtoseconds to Milliseconds (PDF - 239kB - link opens in a new window)
  8. Photochemical studies of astrophysically relevant molecules on a carbon surface (PDF - 1692kB - link opens in a new window)
  9. Towards time-resolved electron diffraction (PDF - 190kB - link opens in a new window)
  10. Production and manipulation of Rydberg positronium for a matter-antimatter gravitational free-fall measurement (PDF - 486kB - link opens in a new window)
  11. Ultrafast carrier dynamics of AlGaInP saturable absorbers (PDF - 110kB - link opens in a new window)
  12. Techniques for Neutral Gas Phase Spectroscopy. Exemplar: The Green Fluorescent Protein Chromophore (PDF - 259kB - link opens in a new window)

Life and Science Imaging

  1. Multiphoton Imaging and Conversion of Combretastatins in 3D Tissue Models (PDF - 48kB - link opens in a new window)
  2. Structure-function relationships and supra-molecular organisation of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) on the cell Surface (PDF - 164kB - link opens in a new window)
  3. Single molecule studies of clathrin-coated vesicle disassembly (PDF - 305kB - link opens in a new window)
  4. Artefacts Caused by Non-Specific Binding of Fluorescent Dyes in Single Molecule Experiments (PDF - 208kB - link opens in a new window)
  5. Redevelopment of the AMO end-station to incorporate a skimmed molecular beam source (PDF - 507kB - link opens in a new window)
  6. XUV generation at 93 eV for coherent actinic imaging of EUVL mask defects (PDF - 199kB - link opens in a new window)
  7. Laser driven x-ray phase-contrast microscopy of soft tissue samples (PDF - 451kB - link opens in a new window)

Theory and Computation

  1. Role of Ionization in DLA-type Fast Electron Generation (PDF - 286kB - link opens in a new window)
  2. Fast Electron Filamentation a broad survey of material and angular initial conditions (PDF - 2153kB - link opens in a new window)
  3. Fast particle Bremsstrahlung effects in the PIC code EPOCH: Enhanced diagnostics for laser-solid interaction modelling (PDF - 1664kB - link opens in a new window)
  4. Heating in wire-like target using laser-generated fast electrons and the theory of angular rarefaction (PDF - 226kB - link opens in a new window)
  5. On The Influence of Laser-Drive Parameters on Annular Fast Electron Transport in Solids (PDF - 474kB - link opens in a new window)
  6. Study of fast electron transport with femtosecond scale laser pulses (PDF - 407kB - link opens in a new window)
  7. 3D simulation of hole-boring radiation pressure acceleration (PDF - 126kB - link opens in a new window)
  8. Light-by-light scattering at low energies (PDF - 354kB - link opens in a new window)
  9. Strong fields and slow light (PDF - 68kB - link opens in a new window)
  10. The effect of quantum radiation reaction on electron motion in ultra-high intensity laser-matter (PDF - 210kB - link opens in a new window)
  11. Modelling radiative-shocks created by laser-cluster interactions (PDF - 978kB - link opens in a new window)
  12. Vorticity Deposition and Density Structure Generation in Colliding Blast Wave Experiments (PDF - 850kB - link opens in a new window)
  13. Characterising the Acceleration Phase of Blast Wave Formation (PDF - 263kB - link opens in a new window)
  14. Weak collisionless shocks in laser-plasmas (PDF - 299kB - link opens in a new window)
  15. Creating Astrophysically Relevant Jets with Locally Heated Targets (PDF - 477kB - link opens in a new window)
  16. The use of the 2D code POLLUX in modelling extreme ultraviolet laser interactions (PDF - 1096kB - link opens in a new window)
  17. Efficiency study of harmonic generation from solid targets in the strongly relativistic regime (PDF - 1546kB - link opens in a new window)
  18. The R-matrix with time-dependence approach for ultrafast dynamics (PDF - 195kB - link opens in a new window)
  19. Nonequilibrium Effects on the Ionisation Energies in Dense Plasmas (PDF - 416kB - link opens in a new window)
  20. A robust plasma-based laser amplifier via stimulated Brillouin scattering (PDF - 2895kB - link opens in a new window)
  21. Two-Pulse Ionization Injection into Quasi-Linear Laser Wakefields (PDF - 481kB - link opens in a new window)
  22. Simulation of photon acceleration technique for density measurement in plasma wakefields (PDF - 334kB - link opens in a new window)

Development

  1. LIFEtime: A New Time-Resolved Laser Spectrometer for the Life Sciences (PDF - 142kB - link opens in a new window)
  2. Super resolution developments in the Octopus facility (PDF - 380kB - link opens in a new window)
  3. New front end for the Gemini facility (PDF - 636kB - link opens in a new window)
  4. A New ns OPCPA Front End for Vulcan Petawatt (PDF - 1797kB - link opens in a new window)
  5. TAW Long Pulse Facility Upgrades (PDF - 701kB - link opens in a new window)
  6. Experimental setup of the Vulcan HAPPIE Laboratory 2 for spatially and temporally coherent multibeam recombination (PDF - 242kB - link opens in a new window)
  7. 48 Hour operation of DiPOLE at 7J at 10 Hz (PDF - 494kB - link opens in a new window)
  8. Delivery of a 100J DiPOLE laser to the HiLASE project: Progress update (PDF - 99kB - link opens in a new window)
  9. HiPER (PDF - 123kB - link opens in a new window)
  10. LIDT Modification Following Debris Damage (PDF - 856kB - link opens in a new window)
  11. In-situ formation of solidified hydrogen thin-membrane targets using a pulse tube cryocooler (PDF - 292kB - link opens in a new window)
  12. Automated Production of High Repetition Rate Foam Targets (PDF - 332kB - link opens in a new window)
  13. Batch Production of Micron-scale Backlighter Targets (PDF - 1165kB - link opens in a new window)
  14. Delivery of POLAR Targets to the First Academic Experiment on the Orion Laser Facility (PDF - 138kB - link opens in a new window)
  15. New Laser Safety Interlock System Design using a PSSuniversal PLC Device (PDF - 784kB - link opens in a new window)
  16. Investigation into the limitations of target positioning on Astra-Gemini (PDF - 1919kB - link opens in a new window)
  17. The design and characterization of an improved target positioning system (PDF - 545kB - link opens in a new window)
  18. Creating Broadband Circular Polarised Light by Reflection (PDF - 958kB - link opens in a new window)
  19. Investigating Schlieren Microscopy as a Method of Optic Inspection (PDF - 852kB - link opens in a new window)
  20. A Study on the Effects of Aging on Radio Chromic Film (PDF - 102kB - link opens in a new window)
  21. Ray tracing to model time of flight effect in square based pyramid scintillators (PDF - 101kB - link opens in a new window)
  22. A K-alpha Imaging Crystal diagnostic for CLF (PDF - 490kB - link opens in a new window)
  23. Development of a High Repetition X-ray Pinhole Camera (PDF - 335kB - link opens in a new window)
  24. Development of a plug-and-play diagnostics base for faster in-target area experiment setup (PDF - 228kB - link opens in a new window)
  25. Calibration of TOF Detectors Using Short Laser Pulse Generated Neutron Source (PDF - 580kB - link opens in a new window)
Contact: Trines, Raoul (STFC,RAL,CLF)