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Nanophotonics for plasma heating

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Vertically aligned nanowires on a solid surface in conjunction with table-top lasers create an ultrahigh-energy-density plasma with extremely high ionization in the laboratory.

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Figure 1: When an intense ultrashort laser pulse irradiates a flat solid, a dense plasma is created in a very small volume at the surface.

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  1. Lap Van Dao and Peter Hannaford are at the Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia,

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Van Dao, L., Hannaford, P. Nanophotonics for plasma heating. Nature Photon 7, 771–772 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2013.250

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