Plasma accelerators

1.1 S. M. Hooker, D. A. Jaroszynski and K. Burnett,
"Laser-driven plasma accelerators: New sources of energetic particles and radiation",
Trans. R. Soc. A. 364 364 553 (2006).

 
1.2 W. P. Leemans, B. Nagler, A. J. Gonsalves, Cs. Tóth, K. Nakamura, C. G. R. Geddes, E. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder and S. M. Hooker
"GeV electron beams from a centimetre-scale accelerator",
Nature Physics 2 696 - 699 (2006).

 
1.3 K. Nakamura, B. Nagler, Cs. Tóth, C. G. R. Geddes, C. B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, and W. P. Leemans, A. J. Gonsalves, and S. M. Hooker
"GeV electron beams from a centimeter-scale channel guided laser wakefield accelerator",
Phys. Plasmas 14 056708 (2007).

 
1.4 T. P. Rowlands-Rees, C. Kamperidis, S. Kneip, A. J. Gonsalves, S. P. D. Mangles, J. G. Gallacher, E. Brunetti, T. Ibbotson, C. D. Murphy, P. S. Foster, M. J. V. Streeter, F. Budde, P. A. Norreys, D. A. Jaroszynski, K. Krushelnick, Z. Najmudin, and S. M. Hooker
"Laser-Driven Acceleration of Electrons in a Partially Ionized Plasma Channel ",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 105005 (2008).

 
Waveguides for high-intensity laser pulses

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2.1 D. J. Spence, P. D. S. Burnett and S. M. Hooker,
"Measurement of the electron-density profile in a discharge-ablated capillary waveguide,"
Opt. Lett. 24 993 - 995 (1999).

 
2.2

S. M. Hooker, D. J. Spence and R. A. Smith,
"Guiding of high-intensity picosecond laser pulses in a discharge-ablated capillary waveguide,"
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 17 90-98 (2000).

 
2.3

D. J. Spence and S. M. Hooker
"Simulations of the propagation of high-intensity laser pulses in discharge-ablated capillary waveguides,"
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 17 1565-1570 (2000).

 
2.4

D. J. Spence and S. M. Hooker
"Investigation of a hydrogen plasma waveguide"
Phys. Rev. E 63 015401(R) (2001).

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2.5

D. J. Spence, A. Butler, and S. M. Hooker
 “First demonstration of guiding of high-intensity laser pulses in a hydrogen-filled capillary discharge waveguide,”
J. Phys. B: Atomic and Molecular Physics 34 4103-4112 (2001).

 
2.6

N. A. Bobrova, A. A. Esaulov, J. -I. Sakai, P. V. Sasorov, D. J. Spence, A. Butler, S. M. Hooker, and S. V. Bulanov,
“Simulations of a hydrogen-filled capillary discharge waveguide,”
Phys. Rev. E, 65 016407 (2002).

 
2.7 A. Butler, D. J. Spence, and S. M. Hooker,
“Guiding of high-intensity laser pulses with a hydrogen-filled capillary discharge waveguide,”
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 185003 (2002).
(This paper was also selected for the November 2002 issue of the Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science.)

 
2.8 D. J. Spence, A. Butler, and S. M. Hooker,
“Gas-filled capillary discharge waveguides,”
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20 138 – 151 (2003).
(This paper was also selected for the January 2003 issue of the Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science.)

 
2.9 A. J. Gonsalves, T. P. Rowlands-Rees, B. H. P. Broks, J. J. A. M. van der Mullen, and S. M. Hooker,
“Transverse Interferometry of a Hydrogen-Filled Capillary Discharge Waveguide,”
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 025002 (2007).

 
2.10 B. H. P. Broks, W. Van Dijk, and J. J. A. W. van der Mullen, A. J. Gonsalves, T. P. Rowlands-Rees, and S. M. Hooker,
“Modeling of a square pulsed capillary discharge waveguide for interferometry measurements,”
Physics of Plasmas 14 023501 (2007).

 

Short-wavelength lasers

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3.1 S. M. Hooker and C. E. Webb,
"Progress in Vacuum Ultraviolet Lasers,"
Prog. Quant. Electr. 18 227 - 274 (1994).

 
3.2 S. M. Hooker and S. E. Harris,
"Femtosecond-Pulse-Driven Electron-Excited Extreme-Ultraviolet Lasers in Be-Like Ions,"
Opt. Lett. 20 1994 - 1996 (1995).

 
3.3 S. M. Hooker,
"Light at the End of the Tunnel? Femtosecond Pulses Excite Short-Wavelength Lasers,"
Optics and Photonics News, 8 (4) pp. 21 - 25, April 1997.

 
3.4

J. S. Cashmore, S. M. Hooker and C. E. Webb,
"Vacuum ultraviolet gain measurements in optically pumped LiYF4:Nd3+,"
Appl. Phys. B. 64 293-300 (1997).

 
3.5 S. M. Hooker, P. T. Epp and G. Y. Yin,
"Effects of a prepulse in the femtosecond-pulse-driven Xe IX laser,"
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B,14 2735 –2741 (1997).

 
3.6

S. M. Hooker,
"Inner-shell soft x-ray lasers in Ne-like ions driven by optical field ionization,"
Opt. Commun. 182 209-219 (2000).

 
3.7 A. Butler, A. J. Gonsalves, C. M. McKenna, D. J. Spence, S. M. Hooker,
S. Sebban , T. Mocek and I. Bettaibi, and B. Cros
"Demonstration of a Collisionally-Excited Optical Field Ionization XUV Laser Driven in a Plasma Waveguide,"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 205001 (2003).
 
3.8  N. David and S. M. Hooker,
"Molecular-dynamic calculation of the relaxation of the electron energy distribution function in a plasma",
Phys. Rev. E 18 68 056401 (2003).

 
3.9 A. Butler, A. J. Gonsalves, C. M. McKenna, D. J. Spence, S. M. Hooker, S. Sebban , T. Mocek, I. Bettaibi, and B. Cros,
"41.8-nm Xe8+ Laser Driven in a Plasma Waveguide,"
Phys. Rev. A 70023821 (2004).

 
3.10 S. Sebban, T. Mocek, I. Bettaibi, B. Cros, G. Maynard, A. Butler, A. J. Gonsalves, C. M. Mc Kenna, D. J. Spence, S. M. Hooker, L. M. Upcraft, P. Breger, P. Agostini, S. le Pape, P. Zeitoun, C. Valentin, P. Balcou, D. Ross, S. Kazamias, A. Klisnick, G. Jamelot, B. Rus, and J. F. Wyart,
"Progress on collisionally pumped optical field ionization soft x-ray lasers,"
IEEE J. Selected Top. Quant. Electron. 10 1351 - 1362 (2004).

 
3.11 T. Mocek, C. M. McKenna, B. Cros, S. Sebban, D. J. Spence, G. Maynard, I. Bettaibi, V. Vorontsov, A. J. Gonsavles, and S. M. Hooker,
"Dramatic enhancement of xuv laser output using a multimode gas-filled capillary waveguide,"
Phys. Rev. A 71 013804 (2005).

 
3.12 W. D. Kimura, N. E. Andreev, M. Babzien, I. Ben-Zvi, D. B. Cline, C. E. Dilley, S. C. Gottschalk, S. M. Hooker, K. P. Kusche, S. V. Kuznetsov, I. V. Pavlishin, I. V. Pogorelsky, A. A. Pogosova, L. C. Steinhauer, A. Ting, A. Zigler, and F. Zhou,
"Pseudoresonant laser wakefield acceleration driven by 10.6 µm laser light,"
IEEE Trans. Plasm. Sci. 33 3 - 7 (2005).

 
3.13 D. J. Spence and S. M. Hooker
"Simulations of recombination lasing in Ar7+ driven by optical field ionization in a capillary discharge waveguide,"
Opt. Commun. 249 501 - 513 (2005).

 
3.14 I. Bettaïbi, S. Sebban, T. Mocek1, C.M. McKenna, B. Cros, A. Butler, D.J. Spence, G. Maynard, A.J. Gonsavles and S.M. Hooker
"Collisional lasers at 41.8 nm in a guided regime"
J. de Phys. IV 127 33 - 37 (2005) .

 
3.15 T. Mocek, S. Sebban, I. Bettaibi, P. Zeitoun, G. Faivre, B. Cros, G. Maynard, A. Butler, C. M. McKenna, D. J. Spence, A. Gonsavles, S. M. Hooker, V. Vorontsov, S. Hallou, M. Fajardo, S. Kazamias, S. Le Pape, P. Mercere, A. S. Morlens, C. Valentin, and P. Balcou,
"Progress in optic-field-ionization soft X-ray lasers at LOA"
Laser and Particle Beams 23 351 - 356 (2005).

 
3.16 S. M. Hooker and D. J. Spence,
"Energy extraction from pulsed amplified stimulated emission lasers operating under conditions of strong saturation"
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 23 1057 - 1067 (2006).

 

High-harmonic generation

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4.1 B. Dromey, M. Zepf, M. Landreman, and S. M. Hooker,
"Quasi-phasematching of harmonic generation via multimode beating in waveguides",
Optics Express 15 7894 - 7900 (2007).

 
4.2 M. Landreman, K. O’Keeffe, T. Robinson, M. Zepf, B. Dromey, and S. M. Hooker,
"Comparison of parallel and perpendicular polarized counterpropagating light for suppressing high harmonic generation",
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24 2421 - 2427 (2007).

 
4.3 M. Zepf, B. Dromey, M. Landreman, P. Foster, and S. M. Hooker,
"Bright Quasi-Phase-Matched Soft-X-Ray Harmonic Radiation from Argon Ions",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 143901 (2007).

 
4.4 Tom Robinson, Kevin O'Keeffe, Matt Zepf, Brendan Dromey, and Simon M. Hooker,
"Generation and control of ultrafast pulse trains for quasi-phase-matching high-harmonic generation",
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27 763-772 (2010).

 

Ultra-fast optics

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5.1 B. Dromey, M. Zepf, M. Landreman, K. O’Keeffe, T. Robinson, and S. M. Hooker,
"Generation of a train of ultrashort pulses from a compact birefringent crystal array,"
Appl. Opt. 46 5142 - 5146 (2007).

 
5.2 T. Robinson, K. O’Keeffe, M. Landreman, S. M. Hooker, M. Zepf, and B. Dromey,,
"Simple technique for generating trains of ultrashort pulses,"
Opt. Lett. 32 2203 - 2205 (2007).
(This paper was also selected for the September 2007 issue of the Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science.)

 
5.3 K. O’Keeffe, T. Robinson and S. M. Hooker,
"Generation and control of chirped, ultrafast pulse trains,"
J. Opt. 12 015201 (2010).

 

Plasma physics

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6.1 N. David, D. J. Spence, and S. M. Hooker,
"Molecular-dynamic calculation of the inverse-bremsstrahlung heating of non-weakly-coupled plasmas,"
Phys. Rev. E 70 056411 (2004).

 
6.2

N. David and S. M. Hooker,
"Effects of polarization on inverse Bremsstrahlung heating of a plasma,"
Phys. Rev. E. 72 036402 (2005).

 

Research Reports

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7.1 EPSRC grant GR/M88969

 

Theses

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2009 Quasi-phase-matching of high-harmonic generation
Tom Robinson, D.Phil. thesis

 
2009 Laser wakefield acceleration in the hydrogen-filled capillary discharge waveguide
Tom Rowlands-Rees, D.Phil. thesis

 
2007 Quasi phase matching techniques for high harmonic generation
Matt Landreman, M.Sc. thesis

 
2006 Waveguides for OFI lasers
Claire McKenna, D.Phil. thesis

 
2006 Investigation of a hydrogen-filled capillary Discharge Waveguide for laser-driven plasma accelerators
Tony Gonsalves, D.Phil. thesis

 
2001 Plasma waveguides for high intensity laser pulses
David Spence, D.Phil. thesis