Conveners
Workshop on Laser Fusion, a spin-off from heavy-ion collisions
- Laszlo Pal Csernai (University of Bergen)
Workshop on Laser Fusion, a spin-off from heavy-ion collisions
- Istvan Papp
Surface plasmon polaritons are the light of the nanoworld, with a broad spectrum of special properties. These properties open the field for a high number of applications, both in the fields of low and high exciting laser intensities The expected effects caused by these plasmons are briefly presented. We have chosen localized plasmons (LSPP) which have been resonantly excited by ...
Rapid progress in technology of lasers and methods learned from astrophysics and relativistic heavy ion collisions led to new possibilities for fusion [1,2]. When nanoantennas are implanted into the target and resonate with the laser frequency, electrons form bunches within them. The motion of these bunches generates the nanoplasmonic wave. Particle-in-cell simulations are not typically...
The NAPLIFE nano-fusion project is running already two tasks at ELI-ALPS in Szeged Hungary. This project is unique in two aspect:
(i) it is using resonant plasmonic nano-antennas to achieve a imultaneous, rapid and stable ignition of fusion fuel and
(ii) to achieve a high-energy, non-thermal ignition mechanism at all dynamical stages of ignition and burning, until the start of nuclear...
We investigate the dynamics of ionization in matter doped by gold nanoparticles under irradiation by short infrared pulses with intensities ~10^15−10^19 W/cm². Numerical modeling of the interaction between laser radiation and the medium with nanoparticles is conducted, various nanoparticles shapes are considered as resonant nanoantennas. A kinetic model is implemented with the EPOCH numerical...
In this work the effect of the embedded gold nanoparticles was studied on the crater formation during high-intensity femtosecond laser irradiation of urethane dimethacrylate (UDMA) polymers. The polymer targets were prepared without and with gold nanoparticles (in two different concentrations) and were irradiated in different spots with single femtosecond laser pulses of different laser...
