Interaction between high-intensity lasers with solid targets is the key process in a wide range of novel laser based particle accelerator schemes as well as electromagnetic radiation sources. Common to all the processes is the generation of femtosecond pulses of relativistic electrons emitted from the targets as forerunners of the later time principle products of the interaction scheme. In this paper, some diagnostics employed in laser-solid matter interaction experiments related to electron, proton and ion acceleration are reviewed. Then, we present our experimental study regarding electrons and EMPs utilizing a fs resolution detector previously adopted only in accelerator facilities.
Bisesto Fabrizio, GALLETTI MARIO, anania maria pia, Ferrario Massimo, Pompili Riccardo, Zigler Arie. Review on TNSA diagnostics and recent developments at SPARC_LAB[J]. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, , (): .