Alignment of solid targets under extreme tight focus conditions generated by an ellipsoidal plasma mirror

Deepak Kumar; Michal ?míd; Sushil Singh; Alexander Soloviev; Hannes Bohlin; Konstantin Burdonov; Gashaw Fente; Alexander Kotov; Livia Lancia; Vit Lédl; Sergey Makarov; Michael Morrissey; Sergey Perevalov; Denis Romanovsky; Sergey Pikuz; Ryousuke Kodama; David Neely; Paul McKenna; Tomá? La?tovi?ka; Mikhail Starodubtsev; Stefan Weber; Motoaki Nakatsutsumi; Julien Fuchs

doi:doi:10.1063/1.5088166

Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2019, 4 (2): 024402, Published Online: Oct. 17, 2019

Alignment of solid targets under extreme tight focus conditions generated by an ellipsoidal plasma mirror

Deepak Kumar ^1,*Michal ?míd ¹Sushil Singh ¹Alexander Soloviev ²Hannes Bohlin ¹Konstantin Burdonov ²Gashaw Fente ¹Alexander Kotov ²Livia Lancia ^3,4Vit Lédl ⁵Sergey Makarov ⁶Michael Morrissey ¹Sergey Perevalov ²Denis Romanovsky ²Sergey Pikuz ⁶Ryousuke Kodama ⁷David Neely ⁸Paul McKenna ⁹Tomá? La?tovi?ka ¹Mikhail Starodubtsev ²Stefan Weber ¹Motoaki Nakatsutsumi ¹⁰Julien Fuchs ^3,4

Author Affiliations

¹ ELI Beamlines, Institute of Physics, 5. května 835, 252 41 Dolní B?e?any, Czech Republic

² Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAP RAS), 46 Ul’yanov Street, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

³ LULI—CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA: Université Paris-Saclay

⁴ UPMC Univ Paris 06: Sorbonne Universities, F-91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France

⁵ Research Center Toptec, Institute of Plasma Physics, Sobotecká 1660, 511 01 Turnov, Czech Republic

⁶ Joint Institute for High Temperatures Russian Academy of Science (JIHT RAS), Moscow 125412, Russia

⁷ Division of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

⁸ Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot OX11 0QX, United Kingdom

⁹ Department of Physics SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, United Kingdom

¹⁰ European XFEL GmbH, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany

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Deepak Kumar, Michal ?míd, Sushil Singh, Alexander Soloviev, Hannes Bohlin, Konstantin Burdonov, Gashaw Fente, Alexander Kotov, Livia Lancia, Vit Lédl, Sergey Makarov, Michael Morrissey, Sergey Perevalov, Denis Romanovsky, Sergey Pikuz, Ryousuke Kodama, David Neely, Paul McKenna, Tomá? La?tovi?ka, Mikhail Starodubtsev, Stefan Weber, Motoaki Nakatsutsumi, Julien Fuchs. Alignment of solid targets under extreme tight focus conditions generated by an ellipsoidal plasma mirror[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2019, 4(2): 024402.

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