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  • 2011 - OSA Fellows For contributions to experimental intense laser plasma interactions including measurements of energetic particle beams and large magnetic fields.
  • 2007 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering contributions to experimental highintensity laser plasma physics including the production of highquality relativistic electron beams, energetic proton beams and the development of techniques to measure very large magnetic fields in intense laserproduced plasmas

Overview

Karl Krushelnick is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research focuses primarily within the fields of Physics and Astronomy, and Engineering. The scientist's subfields of study include Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Mechanics of Materials, Geophysics, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The primary topics of Karl Krushelnick's research encompass Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics, Laser-induced Spectroscopy and Plasma, Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques, Laser Design and Applications, and Atomic and Molecular Physics.

The scientist has contributed numerous papers to various publication venues. Frequent venues include:

  • Physics of Plasmas
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Scientific Reports
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Karl Krushelnick include:

  • "2022 Review of Data-Driven Plasma Science", 2023, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
  • "Magnetic Signatures of Radiation-Driven Double Ablation Fronts", 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • "Measuring magnetic flux suppression in high-power laser-plasma interactions", 2022, Physics of Plasmas
  • "Characterizing extreme laser intensities by ponderomotive acceleration of protons from rarified gas", 2020, New Journal of Physics
  • "Linear colliders based on laser-plasma accelerators", 2023, Journal of Instrumentation

Karl Krushelnick has collaborated frequently with several scientists, including:

  • A. G. R. Thomas
  • John Nees
  • A. Maksimchuk
  • L. Willingale
  • Y. Ma

The scientist has been recognized by professional bodies with notable awards. These include being named an OSA Fellow in 2011 for contributions to experimental intense laser plasma interactions involving measurements of energetic particle beams and large magnetic fields. Additionally, they became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2007, acknowledged for pioneering contributions to experimental high-intensity laser plasma physics, including production of relativistic electron beams, energetic proton beams, and techniques to measure large magnetic fields in intense laser-produced plasmas.

Best Publications

  • Monoenergetic beams of relativistic electrons from intense laser–plasma interactions

    Stuart P. D. Mangles;C. D. Murphy;C. D. Murphy;Zulfikar Najmudin;Alexander George Roy Thomas

  • Fast heating of ultrahigh-density plasma as a step towards laser fusion ignition

    R. Kodama;P. A. Norreys;K. Mima;A. E. Dangor

  • Measurements of energetic proton transport through magnetized plasma from intense laser interactions with solids

    E.L. Clark;K. Krushelnick;J.R. Davies;Matthew Zepf

  • Ultra-high intensity- 300-TW laser at 0.1 Hz repetition rate.

    V. Yanovsky;V. Chvykov;G. Kalinchenko;P. Rousseau

  • Electron Acceleration by a Wake Field Forced by an Intense Ultrashort Laser Pulse

    Victor Malka;S. Fritzler;E. Lefebvre;M.-M. Aleonard

  • Energetic heavy-ion and proton generation from ultraintense laser-plasma interactions with solids

    E. L. Clark;K. Krushelnick;M. Zepf;F. N. Beg

  • Fast heating scalable to laser fusion ignition

    R. Kodama;H. Shiraga;K. Shigemori;Y. Toyama

  • High harmonic generation in the relativistic limit

    B. Dromey;M. Zepf;A. Gopal;K. Lancaster

  • Bright spatially coherent synchrotron X-rays from a table-top source

    S. Kneip;C. McGuffey;J. L. Martins;S. F. Martins

  • Ionization induced trapping in a laser wakefield accelerator.

    C. McGuffey;A. G. R. Thomas;W. Schumaker;T. Matsuoka

  • Characterization of a gamma-ray source based on a laser-plasma accelerator with applications to radiography

    R.D. Edwards;M.A. Sinclair;T.J. Goldsack;K. Krushelnick

  • Near-GeV Acceleration of Electrons by a Nonlinear Plasma Wave Driven by a Self-Guided Laser Pulse

    S Kneip;S R Nagel;S F Martins;S P D Mangles

  • Experimental Evidence of Radiation Reaction in the Collision of a High-Intensity Laser Pulse with a Laser-Wakefield Accelerated Electron Beam

    J. M. Cole;K. T. Behm;E. Gerstmayr;Tom Blackburn

  • Photonuclear physics when a multiterawatt laser pulse interacts with solid targets

    K. W. D. Ledingham;I. Spencer;T. McCanny;R. P. Singhal

  • Generation of neutral and high-density electron-positron pair plasmas in the laboratory

    G. Sarri;K. Poder;J. M. Cole;W. Schumaker

  • Experimental Signatures of the Quantum Nature of Radiation Reaction in the Field of an Ultraintense Laser

    K. Poder;M. Tamburini;G. Sarri;A. Di Piazza

  • Observation of a highly directional γ-ray beam from ultrashort, ultraintense laser pulse interactions with solids

    P.A. Norreys;M. Santala;E. Clark;Matthew Zepf

  • Effect of the plasma density scale length on the direction of fast electrons in relativistic laser-solid interactions

    M. I. K. Santala;M. Zepf;I. Watts;F. N. Beg

  • Plasma Channel Formation and Guiding during High Intensity Short Pulse Laser Plasma Experiments

    K. Krushelnick;A. Ting;C. I. Moore;H. R. Burris

  • Bright Multi-keV Harmonic Generation from Relativistically Oscillating Plasma Surfaces

    Brendan Dromey;Satyabrata Kar;C. Bellei;D.C. Carroll

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Norreys
Peter Norreys University of Oxford
Matthew Zepf
Matthew Zepf Helmholtz Institute Jena
Victor Malka
Victor Malka Weizmann Institute of Science
Warren Mori
Warren Mori University of California, Los Angeles
C. Stoeckl
C. Stoeckl University of Rochester
Phillip Sprangle
Phillip Sprangle University of Maryland, College Park
Gerard Mourou
Gerard Mourou École Polytechnique
Christoph H. Keitel
Christoph H. Keitel Max Planck Society
Gennady Shvets
Gennady Shvets Cornell University
Luis O. Silva
Luis O. Silva Instituto Superior Técnico

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