Exploring Extreme Light Sources In Unconventional Scenarios
Plasmas, electron accel., fusion ignition, & theory
Diode-pumped lasers for ultrashort pulse amplifiers (Diomede)
Ultraintense laser driven sources of high energy particle and radiation are developing rap…
Dosimetry and radiobiology with laser-driven relativistic electron beams
Electron accelerators based upon the so-called Laser Wake-Field Acceleration (LWFA) mechan…
Experimental laser-driven proton acceleration and related beam diagnostics at ILIL
The experiment aims at optimizing the laser-target interaction for the acceleration of pro…
Intense laser interaction with structured targets and high field plasmonics
This research activity is focused on the use of sub-wavelength structuring to enhance the …
Intense laser-driven shock for physics of extreme conditions (FemtoShock)
This experiment indeed marks the beginning of a new research line in INO, where two the gr…
Interferometry for the characterization and diagnostics of targets and plasma in laser-plasma experiments
Recent progresses on laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) open the way for the development …
Laser-driven collisionless shock waves
Intense lasers are able to generate high Mach number, large amplitude shock waves in colli…
Laser-driven ion acceleration
Ultraintense lasers offer the possibility to develop novel sources of multi-MeV ions, base…
Laser-plasma acceleration of electrons and secondary (Compton) radiation sources
The impressive progress of high power laser technology initiated by the introduction of th…
Laser-plasma interaction in a regime relevant for laser-fusion via shock-ignition
Shock ignition (SI) is a promising two-step approach to Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF),…