Graduate Theses
Nathaniel Tamminga
Experimental Enhancement of Laser-based Ion and Electron Sources
Alex Klepinger
Extending Particle in Cell Simulation Methods to Dusty Plasmas and the Warm Dense Matter Regime
Ronak Desai
Enhancing Laser-Driven Proton Acceleration through Computational Methods
Brady Unzicker
Generating and Characterizing Secondary Radiation from Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interactions
Nicholas Czalpa
Alex Russell
Modeling Ultrashort Pulse Laser Damage with the Particle in Cell Method
Preston Pozderac
Novel Pump-Probe Particle-In-Cell Simulations of Relativistic Transparency and Birefringence
Joseph Smith
Advanced Simulations and Optimization of Intense Laser Interactions
Joseph Snyder
Leveraging microscience to manipulate laser-plasma interactions at relativistic intensities
Chris Willis
Studies of ion acceleration from thin solid-density targets on high-intensity lasers
Gregory Ngirmang
Kevin George
Modifying the target normal sheath accelerated ion spectrum using micro-structured targets
Ginevra Cochran
Frank King
Simulations of high-intensity short-pulse lasers incident on reduced mass targets
Scott Feister
Efficient acceleration of electrons by an intense laser and its reflection
Robert Mitchell
Understanding femtosecond-pulse laser damage through fundamental physics simulations
Sheng Jiang
Laser driven electron and X-ray sources based on micro-structured targets
Patrick Poole
Liquid crystals as high repetition rate targets for ultra intense laser systems
Elijah Kemp
Andrew Krygier
On the origin of super-hot electrons in intense laser-plasma interactions
John Morrison
Selective deuteron acceleration using target normal sheath acceleration
Vladimir Ovchinnikov
Determining the properties of laser induced fast electrons from experiments and simulations