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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Full articles

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)

26. Vibrational fingerprinting of protochlorophyllide analogues and implications for the photochemical synthesis of chlorophyll (PDF- 532KB - link opens in a new window)
27. Exploring DNA with 2D-IR ‑ spectroscopy, dynamics and ligand binding (PDF - 935KB - link opens in a new window)
28. Observation of multiple steps in radical reactions on femtosecond to microsecond timescales (PDF - 663KB - link opens in a new window)
29. Long-wavelength laser-driven ultrafast magnetization dynamics in gadolinium (PDF - 429KB - link opens in a new window)
30. Time resolved photoelectron imaging with an XUV high harmonic source (PDF - 458KB - link opens in a new window)
31. 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)

32. ULTRA/ARTEMIS – 100 kHz high power OPCPA progress report (PDF - 616KB - link opens in a new window)
33. 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)
34. A new long pulse beamline for the Gemini facility (PDF - 764KB - link opens in a new window)
35. Recent improvements to the Gemini laser (PDF - 540KB - link opens in a new window)
36. Software developments on Gemini (only abstract available)
37. 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)
38. Progress on delivery of a cross-polarised wave generation temporal filter for the Gemini laser (PDF - 557KB - link opens in a new window)
39. Magnetic detection by longitudinal and transverse MOKE at Artemis (PDF - 199KB - link opens in a new window)
40. Adhesive-free bonded crystalline Yb:YAG for high energy laser applications (PDF - 780KB - link opens in a new window)
41. 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)
42. 20 W upgrade to the ULTRA facility (PDF - 492KB - link opens in a new window)
43. Recent developments in the Thomson Parabola Spectrometer diagnostic for laser-driven multi-species ion sources (PDF – 1769KB – link opens in a new window)
44. Detector for imaging and dosimetry of laser-driven epithermal neutrons by alpha conversion (PDF – 1146KB – link opens in a new window)
45. Measurement of the x-ray emission source size from solid targets irradiated with intense laser pulses (PDF – 1293KB – link opens in a new window)
46. Optimal resolution for a fibre bundle imaging system using a phosphorus based pinhole camera (PDF – 3844KB – link opens in a new window)
47. Surface roughness of NaCl coating used in thin film production (PDF – 990KB – link opens in a new window)
48. MEMS fabrication of silicon microwire targets (PDF – 555KB – link opens in a new window)
49. Target characterisation and pre-alignment for the HAMS high throughput targetry system (PDF–  930KB – link opens in a new window)
50. DiPOLE100 – world's first diode pumped kilowatt average power 100J-level laser (PDF – 1359KB – link opens in a new window)
51. Factors affecting the quality of electroplated high power laser target foils (PDF – 1131KB – link opens in a new window)
52. Commissioning of a new diamond turning capability for STFC (PDF – 639KB – link opens in a new window)
53. 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)
54. 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)

55. In situ visualisation of uniform rectangular platelet micelles using Structured Illumination Microscopy (PDF - 613KB - link opens in a new window)
56. Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) as an approach to functionally dissect periodic membrane structures in neuronal axons (PDF - 802KB - link opens in a new window)
57. 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)