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Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
H. Abu-Shawareb
General Atomics (United States)
2
A. Picksley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
3
Chenren Chen
University of Science and Technology of China
4
Ian E. Ochs
Princeton University
5
Zhiyuan Guo
Shandong University of Science and Technology
6
R. Babjak
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Plasma Physics
7
W. Yao
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
8
Severin Diederichs
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
9
A. Tentori
Politecnico di Milano
10
Proxy Kad
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar

Papers

1
Achievement of Target Gain Larger than Unity in an Inertial Fusion Experiment
Physical Review Letters|2024
381 cit.
2
Matched Guiding and Controlled Injection in Dark-Current-Free, 10-GeV-Class, Channel-Guided Laser-Plasma Accelerators
Physical Review Letters|2024
87 cit.
3
Lowering the reactor breakeven requirements for proton–boron 11 fusion
Physics of Plasmas|2024
17 cit.
4
Mode coupling between two different interfaces of a gas layer subject to a shock
Journal of Fluid Mechanics|2024
12 cit.
5
Electron tail suppression and effective collisionality due to synchrotron emission and absorption in mildly relativistic plasmas
Physics of Plasmas|2024
8 cit.
6
Publication in Physics of Plasmas (2025) [8 citations, W4409365187]
Physics of Plasmas|2025
8 cit.
7
Attenuation of Richtmyer-Meshkov instability growth of fluid layer via double shock
Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy|2025
7 cit.
8
When do waves drive plasma flows?
Physics of Plasmas|2024
6 cit.
9
Effects of disturbed transmitted shock and interface coupling on heavy gas layer evolution
Physics of Fluids|2024
6 cit.
10
Publication in Matter and Radiation at Extremes (2024) [5 citations, W4394879939]
Matter and Radiation at Extremes|2024
5 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Jian-Xing Li
Xi'an Jiaotong University
2
C. V. Young
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
3
Juchun Ding
Chinese Academy of Sciences
4
A. B. Zylstra
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
5
Ioan Dăncuş
Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics
6
S. S. Bulanov
University of Gothenburg
7
Nitesh Attal
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
8
S. Kar
Queen's University Belfast
9
Kevin M. Dorney
IMEC
10
the W -X Team
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics - Greifswald

Papers

1
Achievement of Target Gain Larger than Unity in an Inertial Fusion Experiment
Physical Review Letters|2024
381 cit.
2
Charged particle motion and radiation in strong electromagnetic fields
Reviews of Modern Physics|2022
312 cit.
3
Experimental achievement and signatures of ignition at the National Ignition Facility
Physical review. E|2022
190 cit.
4
Observations and properties of the first laboratory fusion experiment to exceed a target gain of unity
Physical review. E|2024
71 cit.
5
Nonlinear decay of high-power microwaves into trapped modes in inhomogeneous plasma
Nuclear Fusion|2022
46 cit.
6
Manipulation of Giant Multipole Resonances via Vortex <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>γ</mml:mi></mml:math> Photons
Physical Review Letters|2023
43 cit.
7
Analysis of hydrogen fueling, recycling, and confinement at Wendelstein 7-X via a single-reservoir particle balance
Nuclear Fusion|2022
23 cit.
8
Stabilized Radiation Pressure Acceleration and Neutron Generation in Ultrathin Deuterated Foils
Physical Review Letters|2022
21 cit.
9
Production of polarized particle beams via ultraintense laser pulses
Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics|2022
20 cit.
10
Signatures of linear Breit-Wheeler pair production in polarized <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>γ</mml:mi><mml:mi>γ</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:math> collisions
Physical review. D/Physical review. D.|2022
18 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
G. Mourou
Peking University
2
Wim Leemans
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
3
Ferenc Krausz
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
4
Christoph H. Keitel
Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
5
V. Malka
American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science
6
Henry C. Kapteyn
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics
7
S. V. Bulanov
Extreme Light Infrastructure Beamlines
8
Jie Zhang
Material Physics Center
9
K. Krushelnick
University of Michigan
10
P. B. Corkum
University of Ottawa

Papers

1
Plasma perspective on strong field multiphoton ionization
Physical Review Letters|1993
7.1k cit.
2
Attosecond physics
Reviews of Modern Physics|2009
5.3k cit.
3
Theory of high-harmonic generation by low-frequency laser fields
Physical Review A|1994
4.1k cit.
4
Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses
Optics Communications|1985
3.8k cit.
5
Intense few-cycle laser fields: Frontiers of nonlinear optics
Reviews of Modern Physics|2000
3k cit.
6
Attosecond metrology
Nature|2001
2.8k cit.
7
Physics of laser-driven plasma-based electron accelerators
Reviews of Modern Physics|2009
2.5k cit.
8
Attosecond science
Nature Physics|2007
2.1k cit.
9
A laser–plasma accelerator producing monoenergetic electron beams
Nature|2004
2.1k cit.
10
High-quality electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator using plasma-channel guiding
Nature|2004
2k cit.

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