Department Publications

2020s

Think First, Act Later - A Course Structure for Improving Student Designed Experiments

Nathan D. Powers, Dallin S. Durfee, and David D. Allred

2018 Conference on Laboratory Instruction Beyond the First Year of College, Part of the BFY Conference series, (Baltimore, MD, July, 2018).

Control and optimization of a staged laser-wakefield accelerator

G. Golovin, S. Banerjee, S. Chen, N. Powers, C. Liu, W. Yan, … (4 other authors)

Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. A 830, 375-380 (2016).

Compact source of narrowband and tunable X-rays for radiography

Sudeep Banerjee, Shouyuan Chen, Nathan Powers, Daniel Haden, Cheng Liu, G. Golovin, … (7 other authors)

Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. B 350, 106-111 (2015).
Tunable monoenergetic electron beams from independently controllable laser-wakefield acceleration and injection

G. Golovin, S. Chen, N. Powers, C. Liu, S. Banerjee, J. Zhang, … (3 other authors)

Phys. Rev. Spec. Top.-Accel. Beams 18 (1), 011301 (2015).

Tunable monoenergetic electron beams from staged ionization assisted laser wakefield accelerator

G. Golovin, S. Chen, N. Powers, C. Liu, S. Banerjee, J. Zhang, … (3 other authors)

2014 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, (San Jose, CA, June 2014).
Adaptive spectral-phase control for laser wakefield electron acceleration

Cheng Liu, Jun Zhang, Gregory Golovin, Shouyuan Chen, Sudeep Banerjee, Baozhen Zhao, Nathan Powers, … (2 other authors)

2014 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, (San Jose, CA, June 2014).
Quasi Monoenergetic and Tunable X-rays by Laser Compton Scattering from Laser Wakefield e-beam

Nathan Powers, Isaac Ghebregziabher, Gregory Golovin, Cheng Liu, Shouyuan Chen, Sudeep Banerjee, Jun Zhang, and Donald P. Umstadter

2014 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, (San Jose, CA, June 2014).
Quasi-monoenergetic and tunable X-rays from a laser-driven Compton light source

N. D. Powers, I. Ghebregziabher, G. Golovin, C. Liu, S. Chen, S. Banerjee, J. Zhang, and D. P. Umstadter

Nat. Photonics 8 (1), 29-32 (2014).
Adaptive-feedback spectral-phase control for interactions with transform-limited ultrashort high-power laser pulses

Cheng Liu, Jun Zhang, Shouyuan Chen, Gregory Golovin, Sudeep Banerjee, Baozhen Zhao, Nathan Powers, … (2 other authors)

Opt. Lett. 39 (1), 80-83 (2014).

Selective activation with all-laser-driven Thomson γ-rays

J. Silano, H. J. Karwowski, S. Banerjee, D. Haden, G. Golovin, S. Chen, … N. Powers, … (8 other authors)

Technologies for Homeland Security (HST), 2013 IEEE International Conference on (Waltham, MA, November 2013). IEE Proc. H , 429-434 (2013).
MeV-Energy X Rays from Inverse Compton Scattering with Laser-Wakefield Accelerated Electrons

S. Chen, N. D. Powers, I. Ghebregziabher, C. M. Maharjan, C. Liu, G. Golovin, … (7 other authors)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 (15), 155003 (2013).
Stable, tunable, quasimonoenergetic electron beams produced in a laser wakefield near the threshold for self-injection

S. Banerjee, S. Y. Kalmykov, N. D. Powers, G. Golovin, V. Ramanathan, N. J. Cunningham, … (9 other authors)

Phys. Rev. Spec. Top.-Accel. Beams 16 (3), 031302 (2013).
Repetitive petawatt-class laser with near-diffraction-limited focal spot and transform-limited pulse duration

Cheng Liu, Sudeep Banerjee, Jun Zhang, Shouyuan Chen, Kevin Brown, Jared Mills, Nathan Powers, … (4 other authors)

Solid State Lasers XXII: Technology and Devices (San Francisco, CA, February 2013). Proc. SPIE 8599, 859919 (2013).

Generation of tunable, 100-800 MeV quasi-monoenergetic electron beams from a laser-wakefield accelerator in the blowout regime

S. Banerjee, N. D. Powers, V. Ramanathan, I. Ghebregziabher, K. J. Brown, C. M. Maharjan, … (6 other authors)

Phys. Plasmas 19 (5), 056703 (2012).

Background-Free, Quasi-Monoenergetic Electron Beams from a Self-Injected Laser Wakefield Accelerator

S. Banerjee, S. Kalmykov, N. Powers, V. Ramanathan, N. C.-Smith, K. Brown, … (10 other authors)

IQEC/CLEO Pacific Rim 2011 (Sydney, Australia, August 2011). pp. 872-874.

Submillimeter-resolution radiography of shielded structures with laser-accelerated electron beams

Vidya Ramanathan, Sudeep Banerjee, Nathan Powers, Nathaniel Cunningham, Nathan A. Chandler-Smith, Kun Zhao, … (7 other authors)

Phys. Rev. Spec. Top.-Accel. Beams 13 (10), 104701 (2010).

Development of a Source of Quasi‐Monochromatic MeV Energy Photons

Donald Umstadter, Sudeep Banerjee, Vidya Ramanathan, Nathan Powers, Nathaniel Cunningham, and Nate Chandler-Smith

AIP Conf. Proc. 1099, 606 (2009).
High-Brightness, Stable Electron Beams from a Laser Wakefield Accelerator Operating in the Matched Regime

Sudeep Banerjee, Nathan Powers, Vidya Ramanathan, Nate C.-Smith, Kun Zhao, Bradley Shadwick, and Donald P. Umstadter

International Quantum Electronics Conference, (Baltimore, MD, May 2009).
Stable, Monoenergetic 50-400 MeV Electron Beams with a Matched Laser Wakefield Accelerator

Sudeep Banerjee, N. Powers, V. Ramanathan, B. Shadwick, and D. Umstadter

Proc. PAC09, Part. Accel. Conf. 2009, vol. A14 Advanced Concepts, p. TH4GBC02, 2009.
High‐energy Laser‐accelerated Electron Beams for Long‐range Interrogation

Nathaniel J. Cunningham, Sudeep Banerjee, Vidya Ramanathan, Nathan Powers, Nate Chandler-Smith, Randy Vane, … (5 other authors)

AIP Conf. Proc. 1099, 638 (2009).

All-laser-driven, MeV-energy X-ray source for detection of SNM

Sudeep Banerjee, Nathan Powers, Vidya Ramanathan, Nathaniel Cunningham, Nate Chandler-Smith, Shouyuan Chen, Bradley Shadwick, and Donald Umstadter

IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, 2008, pp. 1–6.

Direct observation of laser filamentation in high-order harmonic generation

John C. Painter^†, Mark Adams^‡, Nicole Brimhall^†, Eric Christensen^‡, Gavin Giraud^†, Nathan Powers^‡, Matthew Turner^†, Michael Ware, and Justin Peatross

Opt. Lett. 31 (23), 3471-3473 (2006).

High harmonic generation in a semi-infinite gas cell

J. R. Sutherland^†, E. L. Christensen^†, N. D. Powers^‡, S. E. Rhynard^†, J. C. Painter^†, and J. Peatross

Opt. Express 12 (19), 4430-4436 (2004).

^‡Undergraduate Student Author

^†Graduate Student Author