REU Topic: Plasma and Nonlinear Physics
Prof. Stuart Bale
The plasma physics of solar coronal heating and wind acceleration is still poorly understood. The NASA Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission was launched in late 2018 into an orbit that […]
Prof. Jonathan Wurtele
Laser intensity is limited by material damage to conventional optical elements (e.g., mirrors, lenses, etc). One idea for reaching orders-of-magnitude higher laser intensity is to use a plasma-based amplifier [...]