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Professor Alec Thomas

Formerly at Lancaster University

  1. 2010
  2. Published

    Formation of Optical Bullets in Laser‐Driven Plasma Bubble Accelerators

    Dong, P., Reed, S. A., Yi, S. A., Kalmykov, S. Y., Shvets, G., Matlis, N. H., McGuffey, C., Bulanov, S. S., Chvykov, V., Kalintchenko, G., Krushelnick, K., Maksimchuk, A., Matsuoka, T., Thomas, A. G. R., Yanovsky, V. & Downer, M. C., 11/2010, In: AIP Conference Proceedings. 1299, 1, p. 171-173 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Summary Report of Working Group 1: Laser‐Plasma Acceleration

    Geddes, C. G. R., Clayton, C., Lu, W. & Thomas, A. G. R., 11/2010, In: AIP Conference Proceedings. 1299, 1, p. 79-87 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Measurement of Magnetic-Field Structures in a Laser-Wakefield Accelerator

    Kaluza, M. C., Schlenvoigt, H. -P., Mangles, S. P. D., Thomas, A. G. R., Dangor, A. E., Schwoerer, H., Mori, W. B., Najmudin, Z. & Krushelnick, K. M., 7/09/2010, In: Physical review letters. 105, 11, 4 p., 115002.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Observation of a Long-Wavelength Hosing Modulation of a High-Intensity Laser Pulse in Underdense Plasma

    Kaluza, M. C., Mangles, S. P. D., Thomas, A. G. R., Najmudin, Z., Dangor, A. E., Murphy, C. D., Collier, J. L., Divall, E. J., Foster, P. S., Hooker, C. J., Langley, A. J., Smith, J. & Krushelnick, K., 26/08/2010, In: Physical review letters. 105, 9, 4 p., 095003.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Fast Advection of Magnetic Fields by Hot Electrons

    Willingale, L., Thomas, A. G. R., Nilson, P. M., Kaluza, M. C., Bandyopadhyay, S., Dangor, A. E., Evans, R. G., Fernandes, P., Haines, M. G., Kamperidis, C., Kingham, R. J., Minardi, S., Notley, M., Ridgers, C. P., Rozmus, W., Sherlock, M., Tatarakis, M., Wei, M. S., Najmudin, Z. & Krushelnick, K., 24/08/2010, In: Physical review letters. 105, 9, 4 p., 095001.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Stimulated Raman Side Scattering in Laser Wakefield Acceleration

    Matsuoka, T., McGuffey, C., Cummings, P. G., Horovitz, Y., Dollar, F., Chvykov, V., Kalintchenko, G., Rousseau, P., Yanovsky, V., Bulanov, S. S., Thomas, A. G. R., Maksimchuk, A. & Krushelnick, K., 14/07/2010, In: Physical review letters. 105, 3, 4 p., 034801.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Visualization of plasma bubble accelerators using Frequency-Domain Shadowgraphy: ICHED 2009 - 2nd International Conference on High Energy Density Physics

    Dong, P., Reed, S. A., Yi, S. A., Kalmykov, S. Y., Shvets, G., Downer, M. C., Matlis, N. H., Leemans, W. P., McGuffey, C., Bulanov, S. S., Chvykov, V., Kalintchenko, G., Krushelnick, K., Maksimchuk, A., Matsuoka, T., Thomas, A. G. R. & Yanovsky, V., 06/2010, In: High Energy Density Physics. 6, 2, p. 153-156 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Holographic visualization of laser wakefields

    Dong, P., Reed, S. A., Kalmykov, S. Y., Li, Z-Y., Shvets, G., Matlis, N. H., McGuffey, C., Bulanov, S. S., Chyvkov, V., Kalintchenko, G., Krushelnick, K., Maksimchuk, A., Matsuoka, T., Thomas, A. G. R., Yanovsky, V. & Downer, M. C., 30/04/2010, In: New Journal of Physics. 12, 20 p., 045016.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Plasma cavitation in ultraintense laser interactions with underdense helium plasmas

    Nilson, P. M., Mangles, S. P. D., Willingale, L., Kaluza, M. C., Thomas, A. G. R., Tatarakis, M., Clarke, R. J., Lancaster, K. L., Karsch, S., Schreiber, J., Najmudin, Z., Dangor, A. E. & Krushelnick, K., 30/04/2010, In: New Journal of Physics. 12, 10 p., 045014.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    Proton deflectometry of a magnetic reconnection geometry

    Willingale, L., Nilson, P. M., Kaluza, M. C., Dangor, A. E., Evans, R. G., Fernandes, P., Haines, M. G., Kamperidis, C., Kingham, R. J., Ridgers, C. P., Sherlock, M., Thomas, A. G. R., Wei, M. S., Najmudin, Z., Krushelnick, K., Bandyopadhyay, S., Notley, M., Minardi, S., Tatarakis, M. & Rozmus, W., 9/04/2010, In: Physics of Plasmas. 17, 4, 5 p., 043104.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Formation of Optical Bullets in Laser-Driven Plasma Bubble Accelerators

    Dong, P., Reed, S. A., Yi, S. A., Kalmykov, S., Shvets, G., Downer, M. C., Matlis, N. H., Leemans, W. P., McGuffey, C., Bulanov, S. S., Chvykov, V., Kalintchenko, G., Krushelnick, K., Maksimchuk, A., Matsuoka, T., Thomas, A. G. R. & Yanovsky, V., 2/04/2010, In: Physical review letters. 104, 13, 4 p., 134801.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Generation of GeV protons from 1 PW laser interaction with near critical density targets

    Bulanov, S. S., Bychenkov, V. Y., Chvykov, V., Kalinchenko, G., Litzenberg, D. W., Matsuoka, T., Thomas, A. G. R., Willingale, L., Yanovsky, V., Krushelnick, K. & Maksimchuk, A., 04/2010, In: Physics of Plasmas. 17, 4, 8 p., 043105.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  14. Published

    Scalings for radiation from plasma bubbles

    Thomas, A. G. R., 03/2010, In: Physics of Plasmas. 17, 5, 056708.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  15. Published

    Algorithm for calculating spectral intensity due to charged particles in arbitrary motion

    Thomas, A. G. R., 02/2010, In: Physical Review Special Topics: Accelerators and Beams. 13, 2, 11 p., 020702.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published

    Ionization Induced Trapping in a Laser Wakefield Accelerator

    McGuffey, C., Thomas, A. G. R., Schumaker, W., Matsuoka, T., Chvykov, V., Dollar, F. J., Kalintchenko, G., Yanovsky, V., Maksimchuk, A., Krushelnick, K., Bychenkov, V. Y., Glazyrin, I. V. & Karpeev, A. V., 15/01/2010, In: Physical review letters. 104, 2, 4 p., 025004.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  17. Published

    High-order harmonic generation from solid targets with 2 mJ pulses

    Easter, J. H., Mordovanakis, A. G., Hou, B., Thomas, A. G. R., Nees, J. A., Mourou, G. & Krushelnick, K., 2010, In: Optics Letters. 35, 19, p. 3186-3188 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Narrow Energy Spread Protons and Ions from High-Intensity, High-Contrast Laser Solid Target Interactions

    Dollar, F., Matsuoka, T., McGuffey, C., Bulanov, S. S., Chvykov, V., Davis, J., Kalintchenko, G., Petrov, G., Thomas, A. G. R., Willingale, L., Yanovsky, V., Maksimchuk, A. & Krushelnick, K., 2010, ADVANCED ACCELERATOR CONCEPTS. Gold, S. H. & Nusinovich, G. S. (eds.). AMER INST PHYSICS, p. 710-714 5 p. (AIP Conference Proceedings; vol. 1299).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  19. Published

    Synchrotron x-ray radiation from laser wakefield accelerated electron beams in a plasma channel

    Matsuoka, T., Kneip, S., McGuffey, C., Palmer, C. A. J., Schreiber, J., Huntington, C., Horovitz, Y., Dollar, F., Chvykov, V., Kalintchenko, G., Thomas, A. G. R., Yanovsky, V., Phuoc, K. T., Mangles, S. P. D., Najmudin, Z., Maksimchuk, A. & Krushelnick, K., 2010, In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 244, 4, 4 p., 042026.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  20. 2009
  21. Published

    Generation of Ultrahigh-Velocity Ionizing Shocks with Petawatt-Class Laser Pulses

    Nilson, P. M., Mangles, S. P. D., Willingale, L., Kaluza, M. C., Thomas, A. G. R., Tatarakis, M., Najmudin, Z., Clarke, R. J., Lancaster, K. L., Karsch, S., Schreiber, J., Evans, R. G., Dangor, A. E. & Krushelnick, K., 18/12/2009, In: Physical review letters. 103, 25, 4 p., 255001.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Betatron x-ray generation from electrons accelerated in a plasma cavity in the presence of laser fields

    Thomas, A. G. R. & Krushelnick, K., 10/2009, In: Physics of Plasmas. 16, 10, 12 p., 103103.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. Published

    MeV proton beams generated by 3 mJ ultrafast laser pulses at 0.5 kHz

    Hou, B., Nees, J. A., Easter, J. H., Davis, J., Petrov, G., Thomas, A. G. R. & Krushelnick, K., 09/2009, In: Applied Physics Letters. 95, 10, 101503.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Characterization of High-Intensity Laser Propagation in the Relativistic Transparent Regime through Measurements of Energetic Proton Beams

    Willingale, L., Nagel, S. R., Thomas, A. G. R., Bellei, C., Clarke, R. J., Dangor, A. E., Heathcote, R., Kaluza, M. C., Kamperidis, C., Kneip, S., Krushelnick, K., Lopes, N., Mangles, S. P. D., Nazarov, W., Nilson, P. M. & Najmudin, Z., 27/03/2009, In: Physical review letters. 102, 12, 4 p., 125002.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  25. Published

    Rapid self-magnetization of laser speckles in plasmas by nonlinear anisotropic instability

    Thomas, A. G. R., Kingham, R. J. & Ridgers, C. P., 3/03/2009, In: New Journal of Physics. 11, 11 p., 033001.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  26. Published

    Photon acceleration and modulational instability during wakefield excitation using long laser pulses

    Trines, R. M. G. M., Murphy, C. D., Lancaster, K. L., Chekhlov, O., Norreys, P. A., Bingham, R., Mendonça, J. T., Silva, L. O., Mangles, S. P. D., Kamperidis, C., Thomas, A. G. R., Krushelnick, K. & Najmudin, Z., 02/2009, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 51, 2

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  27. Published

    Ultrashort pulse filamentation and monoenergetic electron beam production in LWFAs

    Thomas, A. G. R., Mangles, S. P. D., Murphy, C. D., Dangor, A. E., Foster, P. S., Gallacher, J. G., Jaroszynski, D. A., Kamperidis, C., Krushelnick, K. & Lancaster, K. L., 02/2009, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 51, 2, 12 p., 024010.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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