Research Areas

The Laser Plasma Laboratory is involved in investigation of a number of basic and applied aspects in laser-plasma interaction, especially those involving radiation from the plasma.

The main current areas of research interest of this lab are :

  • High Order Harmonics (HHG) in plasma plumes
  • Laser based electron acceleration
  • MeV x-ray generation by the relativistic hot electrons
  • Generation of neutrons
  • X-ray lasing schemes using ultra-short pulse lasers
These experiments are being persued using the 10TW, 10Hz titanium sapphire laser system.

In parallel, we are also working on

Our earlier studies were on :

  • Studies of the mechanisms of producing population inversion in the excited states of highly charged ions using ns laser
  • Thermal x-ray generation and its dependence on laser / target parameters
  • XUV-soft x-ray spectroscopic studies of ns/ps laser produced plasma
  • X-ray contact microscopic imaging of biological samples and physical microstructures
  • Pulsed electron emission from laser heated ferroelectrics
  • Time resolved interferometry of plasmas

Here are some details of our recent studies:

More details of these studies can be found in our publications listed here



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