Ultraintense Tabletop Laser System and Plasma Applications

Spectroscopy Methods and Applications of the Tor Vergata Laser‐Plasma Facility Driven by GW‐Level Laser System

“…In this section, divided in three subsections, an exhaustive description of the TVLPS setup [4,5,23], schematically showed in Figure 1, will be provided. It is used for the generation and analysis of radiation from laser induced plasma in the regions of visible, UV and X-rays.…”

“…Finally, conversion efficiency studies [4,5] from infrared laser radiation to X-rays emitted by laser induced plasma for different solid targets in the region (1.3-1.55) keV are also reported. These investigations are interesting for the energetic balance and performance parameters of the laserplasma source.…”

“…Specifically, the application of the latter method has been more and more feasible thanks to the advent and the development in many basic research laboratories of highintensity, tabletop, pulsed laser systems [2][3][4][5] with unique International Journal of Spectroscopy properties that have opened new and unexpected frontiers in the plasma research field.…”

“…So, high-temperature plasma is generated when the laser pulse is focused on a target and the laser intensity reaches or exceeds the threshold for plasma generation (about 10 7 W/cm 2 ) [4]).…”

“…More precisely, in the field of laser-induced plasmas, the main applications [7,8] concern the traditional area of inertial confinement fusion [9,10], astrophysics [11,12], X-ray spectroscopy [4,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20], X-ray imaging [4,[21][22][23], quantum electrodynamics and high-energy physics [24][25][26], atomic physics [27], solid-state physics [28], conversion efficiency studies from laser radiation to UV or X-rays [4,5], evaluation of the energy of the radiation backscattered by plasma and of its reflectivity [4], and so on.…”