Fusion energy has been the driven force in the High Energy Density (HED) community for more than fifty years but especially since the start of the National Ignition Campaign in 2009 on the National Ignition facility (LLNL, USA). The National Ignition Campaign, though a marvel in term of laser technology and data quality in this challenging regime, has failed to achieve ignition. This failure...
One of the main concerns of Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) is the impact of laser parametric instabilities growing during the interaction of the laser pulse (~10^14-10^15 W/cm2) with the long-scale plasma corona; the issue is even more serious in the Shock Ignition scheme, where the intensity of the laser spike (~10^16 W/cm2) is an order of magnitude higher than the intensity needed in the...
The interaction of high-power laser pulses with matter produces electromagnetic radiation with a broad frequency spectrum, ranging from the MHz up to the THz range [1,2]. These pulsed fields (known as Electromagnetic Pulses: EMPs) can reach intensities of the MV/m order at meter distance from the interaction point and are, therefore, often considered as a hazard in laser-plasma experiments,...
