Power Laser Group
- Development of Ultra-Intense Iaser and Its Applications -

Extremely high power- and energy density can be achieved when a high peak-power laser pulse is focused into a small spot. Electrons are accelerated to a speed close to the speed of light, and materials (usually in plasma state) are heated up to 10 million - 1 billion degree. This condition can be used to trigger fusion reaction for energy application or to emit intense x-ray to see inside of materials both in very compact ways. We conduct research on intense laser and interaction with matter related to fusion energy, charged particle acceleration, and x-ray generation.

X-ray emission from an extremely high temperature plasma produced by focusing an intense laser pulse.
(Laser is focused from the left on to a plane target placed on the right.)

Power Laser Group

AIST Tsukuba Central 2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568 Japan
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