Publications

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2024

• Pareto Optimization and Tuning of a Laser Wakefield Accelerator
  F. Irshad, C. Eberle, F. M. Foerster, K. v. Grafenstein, F. Haberstroh, E. Travac, N. Weisse, S. Karsch, and A. Döpp
  Physical Review Letters 133, 085001 (2024)
• Space-time characterization of ultrashort laser pulses: A perspective
  Benjamín Alonso, Andreas Döpp, and Spencer W. Jolly
  APL Photonics 9, 7 (2024)
• Snapshot imaging of ultrashort electron bunches
  Andreas Döpp
  Light: Science & Applications 13, 137 (2024)
• Leveraging Trust for Joint Multi-Objective and Multi-Fidelity Optimization
  Faran Irshad, Stefan Karsch and Andreas Döpp
  Machine Learning: Science and Technology 5, 015056 (2024)

2023

• CoordGate: Efficiently Computing Spatially-Varying Convolutions in Convolutional Neural Networks
  Sunny Howard, Peter Norreys, Andreas Döpp
  British Machine Vision Conference (2023)
• All-optical Compton scattering at shallow interaction angles
  A. Döpp, K.T. Phuoc, I.A. Andriyash
  Journal of Plasma Physics 89, 965890501 (2023) 
• Laser-accelerated electron beams at 1 GeV using optically-induced shock injection
  K v. Grafenstein, F.M. Foerster, F. Haberstroh, D. Campbell, F. Irshad, F.C. Salgado, G. Schilling, E. Travac, N. Weiße, M. Zepf, A. Döpp, S. Karsch
  Scientific Reports, 13, 11680 (2023) 
• Control systems and data management for high-power laser facilities
  S. Feister, K. Cassou, S. Dann, A. Döpp, P. Gauron, A. J. Gonsalves, A. Joglekar, V. Marshall, O. Neveu, H.-P. Schlenvoigt, M. J. V. Streeter, C. A. J. Palmer
  High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 11, 56 (2023)
• Data-driven science and machine learning methods in laser–plasma physics
  A. Döpp, C. Eberle, S. Howard, F. Irshad, J. Lin, M. Streeter
  High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 11, 55 (2023)
• Measuring spatio-temporal couplings using modal spatio-spectral wavefront retrieval
  N. Weisse, J. Esslinger, S. Howard, F. M. Foerster, F. Haberstroh, L. Doyle, P. Norreys, J. Schreiber, S. Karsch, and A. Döpp
  Opt. Express 31, 19733-19745 (2023)
• Tango Controls and Data Pipeline for Petawatt Laser Experiments
  N. Weiße, L. Doyle, J. Gebhard, F. Balling, F. Schweiger, F. Haberstroh, L. D. Geulig, J. Lin, F. Irshad, J. Esslinger, S. Gerlach, M. Gilljohann, V. Vaidyanathan, D. Siebert, A. Münzer, G. Schilling, J. Schreiber, P. G. Thirolf, S. Karsch, A. Döpp
  High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 11, 44 (2023)
• Ion-bunch energy acoustic tracing by modulation of the depth-dose curve
  A Praßelsperger, F Balling, H-P Wieser, K Parodi, J Schreiber 
  High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 11, 42 (2023)  
• Three-dimensional acoustic monitoring of laser-accelerated protons in the focus of a pulsed-power solenoid lens
  S Gerlach, F Balling, AK Schmidt, FE Brack, F Kroll, J Metzkes-Ng, M Reimold, U Schramm, M Speicher, K Zeil, K Parodi, J Schreiber
  High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 11, 38 (2023)
• Hyperspectral Compressive Wavefront Sensing
  S. Howard, J. Esslinger, R. H. W. Wang, P. Norreys, A. Döpp
  High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 11, 32 (2023)
• Applications of object detection networks in high-power laser systems and experiments
  J. Lin, F. Haberstroh, S. Karsch, A. Döpp
  High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 11, 7 (2023)
• Multi-objective and multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization of laser-plasma acceleration
  F. Irshad, S. Karsch, and A. Döpp
  Physical Review Research, 5, 013063 (2023) 
• Progress in hybrid plasma wakefield acceleration
  B. Hidding, R. Assmann, M. Bussmann, D. Campbell, Y.-Y. Chang, S. Corde, J. Couperus Cabadağ, A. Debus, A. Döpp, M. Gilljohann, J. Götzfried, F. M. Foerster, F. Haberstroh, F. Habib, T. Heinemann, D. Hollatz, A. Irman, M. Kaluza, S. Karsch, O. Kononenko, A. Knetsch, T. Kurz, S. Kuschel, A. Köhler, A. Martinez de la Ossa, A. Nutter, R. Pausch, G. Raj, U. Schramm, S. Schöbel, A. Seidel, K. Steiniger, P. Ufer, M. Yeung, O. Zarini, M. Zepf
  Photonics, 10, 99 (2023)

2022

• Stable and high quality electron beams from staged laser and plasma wakefield accelerators
  F. M. Foerster, A. Döpp, F. Haberstroh, K. v. Grafenstein, D. Campbell, Y.-Y. Chang, S. Corde, J. P. Cabadağ, A. Debus, M. F. Gilljohann, A. F. Habib, T. Heinemann, B. Hidding, A. Irman, F. Irshad, A. Knetsch, O. Kononenko, A. Martinez de la Ossa, A. Nutter, R. Pausch, G. Schilling, A. Schletter, S. Schöbel, U. Schramm, E. Travac, P. Ufer, S. Karsch
  Physical Review X 12, 041016 (2022) | Featured in Physics
• Plasma optics improving plasma accelerators
  A. Döpp
  Light: Science & Applications 11 1 (2022) 
• Effect of driver charge on wakefield characteristics in a plasma accelerator probed by femtosecond shadowgraphy
  S. Schöbel, R. Pausch, Y.-Y. Chang, S. Corde, J. Couperus Cabadağ, A. Debus, H. Ding, A. Döpp, F. M. Foerster, M. Gilljohann, F. Haberstroh, T. Heinemann, B. Hidding, S. Karsch, A. Köhler, O. Kononenko, T. Kurz, A. Nutter, K. Steiniger, P. Ufer, A. Martinez de la Ossa, U. Schramm, A. Irman
  New Journal of Physics 24 8 (2022) 
• Charge-state resolved laser acceleration of gold ions to beyond 7 MeV/u
  F. H. Lindner, E. G. Fitzpatrick, D. Haffa, L. Ponnath, A.-K. Schmidt, M. Speicher, B. Zielbauer, J. Schreiber, P. G. Thirolf
  Scientific Reports 12, 4784 (2022)
• Experimental estimates of the photon background in a potential light-by-light scattering study
  L. Doyle, P. Khademi, P. Hilz, A. Sävert, G. Schäfer, J. Schreiber, M. Zepf
  New Journal of Physics 24 025003 (2022)

2021

• Demonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams
  T Kurz, T Heinemann, MF Gilljohann, YY Chang, JP Cabadağ, A Debus, O Kononenko, R Pausch, S Schöbel, RW Assmann, M Bussmann, H Ding, J Götzfried, A Köhler, G Raj, S Schindler, K Steiniger, O Zarini, S Corde, A Döpp, B Hidding, S Karsch, U Schramm, A Martinez de la Ossa, A Irman. 
  Nature Communications 12, 2895 (2021)
• Towards pair production in the non-perturbative regime
  TFC Salgado, K Grafenstein, A Golub, A Döpp, A Eckey, D Hollatz, C Müller, A Seidel, D Seipt, Stefan Karsch, M Zepf. New J. Phys. 23 105002
• Real-Time Electron Solvation Induced by Bursts of Laser-Accelerated Protons in Liquid Water
  A. Prasselsperger, M. Coughlan, N. Breslin, M. Yeung, C. Arthur, H. Donnelly, S. White, M. Afshari, M. Speicher, R. Yang, B. Villagomez-Bernabe, F. J. Currell, J. Schreiber, and B. Dromey
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 186001

2020

• Laser-driven x-ray and proton micro-source and application to simultaneous single-shot bi-modal radiographic imaging
  Ostermayr TM, Kreuzer C, Englbrecht FS, Gebhard J, Hartmann J, Huebl A, Haffa D, Hilz P, Parodi K, Wenz J, Donovan ME, Dyer G, Gaul E, Gordon J, Martinez M, Mccary E, Spinks M, Tiwari G, Hegelich BM, Schreiber J.:
  Nature Communications 11(1):6174
• Physics of High-Charge Electron Beams in Laser-Plasma Wakefields
  J Götzfried, A Döpp, MF Gilljohann, FM Foerster, H Ding, S Schindler, ...
  Physical Review X 10 (4), 041015
• A feasibility study of zebrafish embryo irradiation with laser-accelerated protons
  T.F. Rösch, Z. Szabó, D. Haffa, J. Bin, S. Brunner, F.S. Englbrecht, A.A. Friedl, Y. Gao, J. Hartmann, P. Hilz, C. Kreuzer, F.H. Lindner, T.M. Ostermayr, R. Polanek, M. Speicher, E.R. Szabó, D. Taray, T. Tőkés, M. Würl, K. Parodi, K. Hideghéty, and J. Schreiber
  Review of Scientific Instruments 91, 063303 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0008512
• Radiation protection modelling for 2.5 Petawatt-laser production of ultrashort x-ray, proton and ion bunches: Monte Carlo model of the Munich CALA facility
  FS Englbrecht, A Döpp, J Hartmann, FH Lindner, ML Groß, HF Wirth, ...
  Journal of Radiological Protection 40 (4), 1048
• Bright x-ray radiation from plasma bubbles in an evolving laser wakefield accelerator
  MS Bloom, MJV Streeter, S Kneip, RA Bendoyro, O Cheklov, JM Cole, ...
  Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 23 (6), 061301
• Probing ultrafast magnetic-field generation by current filamentation instability in femtosecond relativistic laser-matter interactions
  G Raj, O Kononenko, MF Gilljohann, A Doche, X Davoine, C Caizergues, ...
  Physical Review Research 2 (2), 023123
• Nonlinear plasma wavelength scalings in a laser wakefield accelerator
  H Ding, A Döpp, M Gilljohann, J Götzfried, S Schindler, L Wildgruber, ...
  Physical Review E 101 (2), 023209

2019

• Hybrid LWFA–PWFA staging as a beam energy and brightness transformer: conceptual design and simulations
  A Martinez de la Ossa, RW Assmann, M Bussmann, S Corde, ...
  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 377 (2151), 20180175
• Tunable X-ray source by Thomson scattering during laser-wakefield acceleration
  S Schindler, A Döpp, H Ding, M Gilljohann, J Götzfried, S Karsch
  Laser Acceleration of Electrons, Protons, and Ions V 11037, 110370N
• Dual-energy electron beams from a compact laser-driven accelerator
  J Wenz, A Döpp, K Khrennikov, S Schindler, MF Gilljohann, H Ding, ...
  Nature Photonics 13 (4), 263-269
• Direct observation of plasma waves and dynamics induced by laser-accelerated electron beams
  MF Gilljohann, H Ding, A Döpp, J Götzfried, S Schindler, G Schilling, ...
  Physical Review X 9 (1), 011046
• Fundamentals and Applications of Hybrid LWFA-PWFA
  B Hidding, A Beaton, L Boulton, S Corde, A Doepp, FA Habib, ...
  Applied Sciences 9 (13), 2626
• Temporally Resolved Intensity Contouring (TRIC) for characterization of the absolute spatio-temporal intensity distribution of a relativistic, femtosecond laser pulse
  Daniel Haffa, Jianhui Bin, Martin Speicher, Klaus Allinger, Jens Hartmann, Christian Kreuzer, Enrico Ridente, Tobias M. Ostermayr, Jörg Schreiber
  Sci Rep 9, 7697 (2019)
• I-BEAT: Ultrasonic method for online measurement of the energy distribution of a single ion bunch
  Daniel Haffa, Rong Yang, Jianhui Bin, Sebastian Lehrack, Florian-Emanuel Brack, Hao Ding, Franz S. Englbrecht, Ying Gao, Johannes Gebhard, Max Gilljohann, Johannes Götzfried, Jens Hartmann, Sebastian Herr, Peter Hilz, Stephan D. Kraft, Christian Kreuzer, Florian Kroll, Florian H. Lindner, Josefine Metzkes-Ng, Tobias M. Ostermayr, Enrico Ridente, Thomas F. Rösch, Gregor Schilling, Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt, Martin Speicher, Derya Taray, Matthias Würl, Karl Zeil, Ulrich Schramm, Stefan Karsch, Katia Parodi, Paul R. Bolton, Walter Assmann, Jörg Schreiber
  Sci Rep 9, 6714 (2019)

2018

• Observation of Laser Power Amplification in a Self-Injecting Laser Wakefield Accelerator
  M. J. V. Streeter, S. Kneip, M. S. Bloom, R. A. Bendoyro, O. Chekhlov, A. E. Dangor, A. Döpp, C. J. Hooker, J. Holloway, J. Jiang, N. C. Lopes, H. Nakamura, P. A. Norreys, C. A. J. Palmer, P. P. Rajeev, J. Schreiber, D. R. Symes, M. Wing, S. P. D. Mangles, and Z. Najmudin
  Physical Review Letters 120, 254801 
• Energy-chirp compensation in a laser wakefield accelerator
  A Döpp, C Thaury, E Guillaume, F Massimo, A Lifschitz, I Andriyash, ...
  Physical Review Letters 121, 074802
• Relativistic few-cycle pulses with high contrast from picosecond-pumped OPCPA
  A Kessel, V E Leshchenko, O Jahn, M Krüger, A Münzer, A Schwarz, V Pervak, M Trubetskov, S A Trushin, F Krausz, Z Major, S Karsch
  Optica, Volume 5, Issue 4
• Research towards high-repetition rate laser-driven X-ray sources for imaging applications
  J Götzfried, A Döpp, M Gilljohann, H Ding, S Schindler, J Wenz, L Hehn, F Pfeiffer, and S Karsch
  Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
• Quick X-ray microtomography using a laser-driven betatron source
  A Döpp, L Hehn, J Götzfried, J Wenz, M Gilljohann, H Ding, S Schindler, F. Pfeiffer, and S. Karsch
  Optica, Volume 5, Issue 2
• Isolated proton bunch acceleration by a petawatt laser pulse
  P. Hilz, T. M. Ostermayr, A. Huebl, V. Bagnoud, B. Borm, M. Bussmann, M. Gallei, J. Gebhard, D. Haffa, J. Hartmann, T. Kluge, F. H. Lindner, P. Neumayr, C. G. Schaefer, U. Schramm, P. G. Thirolf, T .F. Rösch, F. Wagner, B. Zielbauer, J. Schreiber
  Nat Commun 9, 423 (2018)
• A transportable Paul-trap for levitation and accurate positioning of micron-scale particles in vacuum for laser-plasma experiments
  T. M. Ostermayr, J. Gebhard, D. Haffa, D. Kiefer, C. Kreuzer, K. Allinger, C. Bömer, J. Braenzel, M. Schnürer, I. Cermak, J. Schreiber, and P. Hilz
  Review of Scientific Instruments 89, 013302 (2018)
• A novel approach to electron data background treatment in an online wide-angle spectrometer for laser-accelerated ion and electron bunches
  F. H. Lindner, J. H. Bin, F. Englbrecht, D. Haffa, P. R. Bolton, Y. Gao, J. Hartmann, P. Hilz, C. Kreuzer, T. M. Ostermayr, T. F. Rösch, M. Speicher, K. Parodi, P. G. Thirolf, and J. Schreiber
  Review of Scientific Instruments 89, 013301 (2018)
• Integrated double-plasma-mirror targets for contrast enhancement in laser ion acceleration
  Martin Speicher, Daniel Haffa, Matthias A. O. Haug, Jianhui Bin, Ying Gao, Jens Hartmann, Peter Hilz, Christian Kreuzer, Florian H. Lindner, Tobias M. Ostermayr, Thomas F. Rösch, Rong Yang, Jörg Schreiber
  J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1079 012002
• The spatial contrast challenge for intense laser-plasma experiments
  Jens Hartmann, Daniel Haffa, Martin Speicher, Jianhui Bin, Peter Hilz, Christian Kreuzer, Tobias Ostermayr, Sebastian Lehrack, Jörg Schreiber
  J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1079 012003

2017

• Stable femtosecond X-rays with tunable polarization from a laser-driven accelerator
  A Döpp, B Mahieu, A Lifschitz, C Thaury, A Doche, E Guillaume, G Grittani, O Lundh, M Hansson, J Gautier, M Kozlova, J-P Goddet, P Rousseau, A Tafzi, V Malka, A Rousse, S Corde, and K Ta Phuoc
  Light: Science & Applications 6, e17086
• Dynamics of laser-driven proton acceleration exhibited by measured laser absorptivity and reflectivity
  JH Bin, K Allinger, K Khrennikov, S Karsch, PR Bolton, J Schreiber
  Scientific Reports, 7:43548
• Towards swift ion bunch acceleration by high-power laser pulses at the Centre for Advanced Laser Applications (CALA)
  F.H.Lindner, D.Haffa, J.H.Bin, F.Englbrecht, Y.Gao, J.Gebhard, J.Hartmann, P.Hilz, C.Kreuzer, S.Lehrack, T.M.Ostermayr, T.F.Rösch, M.Speicher, M.Würl, K.Parodi, J.Schreiber, P.G.Thirolf
  Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 402, 2017
• An automated, 0.5 Hz nano-foil target positioning system for intense laser plasma experiments
  Ying Gao, Jianhui Bin, Daniel Haffa, Christian Kreuzer, Jens Hartmann, Martin Speicher, Florian H. Lindner, Tobias M. Ostermayr, Peter Hilz, Thomas F. Rösch, Sebastian Lehrack, Franz Englbrecht, Sebastian Seuferling, Max Gilljohann, Hao Ding, Wenjun Ma, Katia Parodi, Jörg Schreiber
  High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 5, E12

2016

• Collective Deceleration of Laser-Driven Electron Bunches
  S Chou, J Xu, K Khrennikov, D E Cardenas, J Wenz, M Heigoldt, L Hofmann, L. Veisz, and S. Karsch
  Physical Review Letters 117, 144801
• Demonstration of passive plasma lensing of a laser wakefield accelerated electron bunch
  S. Kuschel, D. Hollatz, T. Heinemann, O. Karger, M. B. Schwab, D. Ullmann, A. Knetsch, A. Seidel, C. Rödel, M. Yeung, M. Leier, A. Blinne, H. Ding, T. Kurz, D. J. Corvan, A. Sävert, S. Karsch, M. C. Kaluza, B. Hidding, and M. Zepf
  Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 19, 071301 
• Generation of multi-octave spanning high-energy pulses by cascaded nonlinear processes in BBO
  A. Kessel, S. Trushin, N. Karpowicz, C. Skrobol, S. Klingebiel, C. Wandt, S. Karsch
  Optics Express 24, 5628
• Proton acceleration by irradiation of isolated spheres with an intense laser pulse
  T. M. Ostermayr et al.
  Phys. Rev. E 94, 033208
• Invited Review Article: “Hands-on” laser-driven ion acceleration: A primer for laser-driven source development and potential applications
  J. Schreiber, P. R. Bolton, and K. Parodi
  Review of Scientific Instruments 87, 071101 (2016)

2015

• Temporal evolution of longitudinal bunch profile in a laser wakefield accelerator
  M Heigoldt, A. Popp, K Khrennikov, J Wenz, S W Chou, S. Karsch, S. I. Bajlekov, S. M. Hooker, and B Schmidt
  Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators & Beams 18, 121302 
• Tunable All-Optical Quasimonochromatic Thomson X-Ray Source in the Nonlinear Regime
  K Khrennikov, J Wenz, A. Buck, J Xu, M Heigoldt, L. Veisz, and S. Karsch
  Physical Review Letters 114, 195003
• Quantitative X-ray phase-contrast microtomography from a compact laser-driven betatron source
  J Wenz, S Schleede, K Khrennikov, M Bech, P. Thibault, M Heigoldt, F. Pfeiffer, and S. Karsch
  Nature Communications 6:7568

2014

• Development of a Joule-class Yb:YAG amplifier and its implementation in a CPA system generating 1 TW pulses
  C Wandt, S Klingebiel, S Keppler, M Hornung, M Loeser, M Siebold, C Skrobol, A Kessel, S A. Trushin, Z Major, J Hein, M C Kaluza, F Krausz, S Karsch
  Laser & Photonics Reviews Volume 8, Issue 6 
• Multi-μJ harmonic emission energy from laser-driven plasma
  P. Heißler, A. Barna, J. Mikhailova, G. Ma, K. Khrennikov, S. Karsch, L. Veisz, I. Földes, G. Tsakiris
  Applied Physics B 118, 195 (2014)
• Using the third state of matter: high harmonic generation from liquid targets
  P. Heißler, E. Lugovoy, R. Hörlein, L. Waldecker, J. Wenz, M. Heigoldt, K. Khrennikov, S. Karsch, F. Krausz, B. Abel, G. Tsakiris
  New Journal of Physics 16, 113045
• Efficient generation of THz pulses with 0.4 mJ energy
  J. Fülöp, Z. Ollmann, C. Lombosi, C. Skrobol, S. Klingebiel, L. Pálfalvi, F. Krausz, S. Karsch, P. Hebling
  Optics Express 22, 20155 
• Temporal coherence of high-order harmonics generated at solid surfaces
  D. Hemmers, M. Behmke, S. Karsch, J. Keyling, Z. Major, C. Stelzmann, G. Pretzler
  Applied Physics B, Volume 116, Issue 1, pp 121-127  

2013

• Shock-Front Injector for High-Quality Laser-Plasma Acceleration
  A. Buck, J Wenz, J Xu, K Khrennikov, K. Schmid, M Heigoldt, J M Mikhailova, M. Geissler, B Shen, F. Krausz, S. Karsch, and L. Veisz
  Physical Review Letters 110, 185006
• Investigation of GeV-scale electron acceleration in a gas-filled capillary discharge waveguide
  P. A. Walker, N. Bourgeois, W. Rittershofer, J. Cowley, N. Kajumba, A. Maier, J. Wenz, C. Werle, S. Karsch, F. Grüner, D. R. Symes, P.P. Rajeev, S. J. Hawkes, O. Chekhlov, C. Hooker, B. Parry, Y. Tang, S. M. Hooker
  New Journal of Physics 15, 045024  
• Longitudinal electron bunch profile reconstruction by performing phase retrieval on coherent transition radiation spectra
  S. I. Bajlekov, M. Heigoldt, A. Popp, J. Wenz, K. Khrennikov, S. Karsch, S. M. Hooker
  Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams 16, 040701 
• On the small divergence of laser-driven ion beams from nanometer thick foils
  J. Bin, W. Ma, K. Allinger, H. Wang, D. Kiefer, S. Reinhardt, P. Hilz, K. Khrennikov, S. Karsch, X. Q. Yan, F. Krausz, T. Tajima, D. Habs, J. Schreiber
  Physics of Plasmas 20, 073113