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Ultrahigh-intensity optical slow-wave structure for direct laser electron acceleration

Andrew G. York, B. D. Layer, J. P. Palastro, T. M. Antonsen, and H. M. Milchberg

Journal of the Optical Society of America B 25, 7 (2008). [ PDF (1.55MB) ]

 

Space- and time- resolved measurement of rotational wave packet revivals of linear gas molecules using single-shot supercontinuum spectral interferometry

Y.-H. Chen, S. Varma, and H. M. Milchberg

Journal of the Optical Society of America B 25, 7 (2008). [ PDF (955 KB) ]

 

Broadband terahertz lasing in aligned molecules

Andrew G. York and H. M. Milchberg

Optics Express 16, 10559 (2008). [ PDF (141 KB) ]

 

Direct Acceleration of Electrons in a Corrugated Plasma Waveguide

A. G. York, H. M. Milchberg, J. P. Palastro, and T. M. Antonsen

Physical Review Letters 100, 195001 (2008). [ PDF (876 KB) ]

 

Single-shot Space- and Time-resolved Measurement of Rotational Wave Packet Revivals in H2, D2, N2, O2 and N2O

Y.-H. Chen, S. Varma, A. York and H. M. Milchberg

Optics Express 15, 11341 (2007). [ PDF (1.50 MB) ]

 

Measurement of Transient Nonlinear Index of Refraction in Gases Using Xenon Supercontinuum Single-Shot Spectral Interferometry

Y.-H. Chen, S. Varma, I. Alexeev and H. M. Milchberg

Optics Express 15,  7458 (2007). [ PDF (3.14 MB) ]

 

Ultrahigh-Intensity Optical Slow-Wave Structure

B.D. Layer, A. York, T.M. Antonsen, S. Varma, Y.-H. Chen, Y. Leng and H.M. Milchberg

Physical Review Letters 99, 035001 (2007). [ PDF (1.62 MB) ]

 

Excitation of Terahertz Radiation by Laser Pulses in Nonuniform Plasma Channels

T. M. Antonsen Jr., J. Palastro and H. M. Milchberg

Physics of Plasmas 14, 033107 (2007). [ PDF (434 KB) ]

 

Clustered Gases as a Medium for Efficient Plasma Waveguide Generation

H. M. Milchberg, K. Y. Kim, V. Kumarappan, B.D. Layer and H. Sheng

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 364, 2005.1729 (2006) [ PDF (511 KB) ]

 

Guiding of Intense Laser Pulse in Plasma Waveguides Produced from Efficient, Femtosecond End-Pumped Heating of Clustered Gases

V. Kumarappan, K. Y. Kim, and H. M. Milchberg

Physical Review Letters 94, 205004 (2005) [ PDF (402 KB) ]

 

Resonant heating of a cluster plasma by intense laser light

T. M. Antonsen Jr., T. Taguchi, A. Gupta, J. M. Cooley, J. Palastro and H. M. Milchberg

Physics of Plasmas 12, 056703 (2005) [ PDF (165 KB) ]

 

Effective coupling of ultraintense laser pulse to funnel-mouthed plasma waveguides

Jianzhou Wu, J. M. Cooley,  T. M. Antonsen, Jr., and H. M. Milchberg

Physics of Plasmas 12, 043105 (2005) [ PDF (296 KB) ]

 

Spectral redshifts in the intense laser-cluster interaction

K. Y. Kim, I. Alexeev, T. M. Antonsen, A. Gupta, V. Kumarappan, and H. M. Milchberg

Physical Review A  71, 011201 (2005) [ PDF (329 KB) ]

 

Propagation of Intense Short Laser Pulses in a Gas of Atomic Clusters

A. Gupta, T. M. Antonsen, Jr., and H. M. Milchberg

Physical Review E  70, 046410 (2004) [ PDF (228 KB) ]

 

Resonant Heating of a Cluster Plasma by Intense Laser Light

T. Taguchi, T. M. Antonsen, Jr., and H. M. Milchberg

Physical Review Letters 92,  205003 (2004) [ PDF (214 KB) ]

 

Gases of exploding laser-heated cluster nanoplasmas as a nonlinear optical medium

K. Y. Kim, I Alexeev, V. Kumarappan, E. Parra, T. Antonsen, T. Taguchi, A. Gupta, and H. M. Milchberg

Physics of Plasmas  11, 2882 May (2004)[ PDF (831 KB) ]

 

Measurement of the Average Size and Density of Clusters in a Gas Jet

K. Y. Kim, V. Kumarappan, and H. M. Milchberg

Applied Physics Letters 83,  3210 (2003) [ PDF (211 KB) ]

 

Pump-probe studies of EUV and X-ray emission dynamics of laser-irradiated noble gas droplets

E. Parra, S. J. Mcnaught, J. Fan and H. M. Milchberg

Applied Physics A 77,  317-323 (2003)[ PDF (876 KB) ]

 

Self-Focusing of Intense Laser Pulses in a Clustered Gas

I. Alexeev, T. M. Antonsen, K. Y. Kim and H. M. Milchberg

Physical Review Letters 90,  103402 (2003) [ PDF (220 KB) ]

 

Time-Resolved Explosion of Intense Laser-Heated Clusters

K. Y. Kim, I. Alexeev, E. Parra and H. M. Milchberg

Physical Review Letters 90, 023401 (2003) [ PDF (264 KB) ]

 

Hydrodynamic Time Scales for Intense Laser-Heated Clusters

E. Parra, I. Alexeev, J. Fan, K. Y. Kim, S. J. McNaught, and H. M. Milchberg

Journal of the Optical Society of America B 20, 118 (2003) [ PDF (246 KB) ]

 

Single-shot Measurement of Laser-Induced Double Step Ionization of Helium

K. Y. Kim, I. Alexeev, and H. M. Milchberg

Optics Express 10, 1563 (2002) [ PDF (401 KB) ]

 

Single-shot Supercontinuum Spectral Interferometry

K. Y. Kim, I. Alexeev, and H. M. Milchberg

Applied Physics Letters 81, 4124 (2002) [ PDF (285 KB) ]

 

Resonant Self-Trapping of High Intensity Bessel Beams in Underdense Plasmas

J. Fan, E. Parra, K. Y. Kim, I. Alexeev, H. M. Milchberg, J. Cooley, and T. M. Antonsen

Physical Review E 65, 056408 (2002) [ PDF (1166 KB) ]

 

Measurement of the Superluminal Group Velocity of an Ultrashort Bessel Beam Pulse

I. Alexeev, K. Y. Kim, and H. M. Milchberg

Physical Review Letters 88, 073901 (2002) [ PDF (371 KB) ]

 

Characterization of a Cryogenic, High-pressure Gas Jet Operated in the Droplet Regime

E. Parra, S. J. McNaught, and H. M. Milchberg

Review of Scientific Instruments 73, 468 (2002) [ PDF (581 KB) ]

 

A Pump-Probe Investigation of Laser-Droplet Plasma Dynamics

S. J. McNaught, J. Fan, E. Parra, and H. M. Milchberg

Applied Physics Letters 79, 4100 (2001) [ PDF (239 KB) ]

 

Plasma Hydrodynamics of the Intense Laser-Cluster Interaction

H. M. Milchberg, S. J. McNaught, and E. Parra

Physical Review E 64, 056402 (2001) [ PDF (126 KB) ]