Following up on my previous post I thought I would recount my favorite and most respected publications of the first half of 2019.
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First, there are the three papers on which I’m a listed author (bias intended!):
1 April, Optics Letters
Influence of longitudinal chromatism on vacuum acceleration by intense radially polarized laser beams
I showed that if an ultrashort radially-polarized laser pulse has chromatic aberration, then the vacuum acceleration can be significantly affected. This includes a surprising increase, but in a larger parameter range it is mostly a negative effect. I expect that this has been present in past experiments, but not diagnosed.
13 June, Nature Communications
Spectral phase control of interfering chirped pulses for high-energy narrowband terahertz generation
The main work from my PhD within a collaboration at DESY. See a report on the results here.
13 June, Journal of Physics: Photonics
Spatio-temporal structure of a petawatt femtosecond laser beam
Our team at the CEA reports measurements and a detailed analysis of spatio-temporal properties of the BELLA laser system in Berkeley, USA.
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Outside of my authorship of course, there are a large number of publications that have been intensely interesting and impressive to me. This is a short sampling.
18 February, Nature Photonics
Dual-energy electron beams from a compact laser-driven accelerator
25 February, Nature Communications
Optical space-time wave packets having arbitrary group velocities in free space
21 March, Physical Review X
Identification of Coupling Mechanisms between Ultraintense Laser Light and Dense Plasmas
29 March, Physical Review Letters
Upper Bound to the Orbital Angular Momentum Carried by an Ultrashort Pulse
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I have a few publications waiting in the wings, and I’m sure that my colleagues across the world do as well. Here’s to a good second half of 2019.