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  1. Acceleration of the particle-in-cell code Osiris with graphics processing units

    Article • Journal of Plasma Physics, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  2. Particle-in-cell simulations of pulsar magnetospheres: Transition between electrosphere and force-free regimes

    Article • Astronomy and Astrophysics, October 2024, EDP Sciences

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  3. Interaction between electrostatic collisionless shocks generates strong magnetic fields

    Article • New Journal of Physics, May 2022, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  4. Slowdown of interpenetration of two counterpropagating plasma slabs due to collective effects

    Article • March 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  5. Boosting the performance of Brillouin amplification at sub-quarter-critical densities via reduction of parasitic Raman scattering

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, October 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  6. A robust plasma-based laser amplifier via stimulated Brillouin scattering

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, October 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  7. Quantum Electrodynamics vacuum polarization solver

    Article • New Journal of Physics, September 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca, Fábio Cruz

  8. Accurately simulating nine-dimensional phase space of relativistic particles in strong fields

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, August 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  9. Author Correction: Generalized superradiance for producing broadband coherent radiation with transversely modulated arbitrarily diluted bunches

    Article • Nature Nanotechnology, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  10. Magnetized current filaments as a source of circularly polarized light

    Article • Journal of Plasma Physics, February 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  11. High-order harmonic generation in an electron-positron-ion plasma

    Article • January 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  12. A new field solver for modeling of relativistic particle-laser interactions using the particle-in-cell algorithm

    Article • Computer Physics Communications, January 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  13. Plasma Wakes Driven by Photon Bursts via Compton Scattering

    Article • Physical Review Letters, December 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  14. Proton Bunch Self-Modulation in Plasma with Density Gradient

    Article • Physical Review Letters, December 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  15. New criteria for efficient Raman and Brillouin amplification of laser beams in plasma

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  16. Proton beam defocusing in AWAKE: comparison of simulations and measurements

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, October 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  17. Compton scattering in particle-in-cell codes

    Article • Journal of Plasma Physics, October 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  18. Generalized superradiance for producing broadband coherent radiation with transversely modulated arbitrarily diluted bunches

    Article • Nature Nanotechnology, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  19. Dynamic load balancing with enhanced shared-memory parallelism for particle-in-cell codes

    Article • Computer Physics Communications, September 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca, Dr. Kyle G Miller

  20. Experimental study of wakefields driven by a self-modulating proton bunch in plasma

    Article • Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, August 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  21. On numerical errors to the fields surrounding a relativistically moving particle in PIC codes

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, July 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  22. Interplay between the Weibel instability and the Biermann battery in realistic laser-solid interactions

    Article • Physical Review Research, May 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  23. Anisotropic heating and magnetic field generation due to Raman scattering in laser-plasma interactions

    Article • Physical Review Research, April 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  24. Correction to ‘Proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration in AWAKE’

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, December 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  25. On the use of the envelope model for down-ramp injection in laser-plasma accelerators

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, November 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  26. Wakefields in a cluster plasma

    Article • Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, November 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  27. Eupraxia, A Step Toward A Plasma-Wakefield Based Accelerator With High Beam Quality

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, November 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  28. Status of the Horizon 2020 EuPRAXIA conceptual design study

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, November 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  29. Proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration in AWAKE

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, June 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  30. Are we ready to transfer optical light to gamma-rays?

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  31. Mechanisms for the mitigation of the hose instability in plasma-wakefield accelerators

    Article • Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, March 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  32. Petascale particle-in-cell simulations of kinetic effects in inertial fusion energy plasmas

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, March 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  33. Bright γ rays source and nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pairs in the collision of high density particle beams

    Article • Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, February 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  34. Experimental Observation of Plasma Wakefield Growth Driven by the Seeded Self-Modulation of a Proton Bunch

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  35. Experimental Observation of Proton Bunch Modulation in a Plasma at Varying Plasma Densities

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  36. Bright Gamma-Ray Flares Powered by Magnetic Reconnection in QED-strength Magnetic Fields

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, January 2019, American Astronomical Society

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  37. EuPRAXIA – a compact, cost-efficient particle and radiation source

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  38. Acceleration of electrons in the plasma wakefield of a proton bunch

    Article • Nature, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  39. Fully Kinetic Large-scale Simulations of the Collisionless Magnetorotational Instability

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, June 2018, American Astronomical Society

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  40. Ion-channel laser growth rate and beam quality requirements

    Article • Journal of Plasma Physics, May 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  41. Advantages to a diverging Raman amplifier

    Article • Communications Physics, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  42. Conditions for the onset of the current filamentation instability in the laboratory

    Article • Journal of Plasma Physics, May 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  43. Ion acceleration in electrostatic collisionless shock: on the optimal density profile for quasi-monoenergetic beams

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, February 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  44. Extremely intense laser-based electron acceleration in a plasma channel

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, January 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  45. AWAKE readiness for the study of the seeded self-modulation of a 400 GeV proton bunch

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, November 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  46. Horizon 2020 EuPRAXIA design study

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, July 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  47. Robustness of raman plasma amplifiers and their potential for attosecond pulse generation

    Article • High Energy Density Physics, June 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  48. Controlling the numerical Cerenkov instability in PIC simulations using a customized finite difference Maxwell solver and a local FFT based current correction

    Article • Computer Physics Communications, May 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  49. Mitigation of the Hose Instability in Plasma-Wakefield Accelerators

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 2017, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  50. Seeded QED cascades in counterpropagating laser pulses

    Article • February 2017, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  51. Formation of collisionless shocks in magnetized plasma interaction with kinetic-scale obstacles

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, February 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca, Fábio Cruz

  52. An examination of the scaling laws for LWFA in the self-guided nonlinear blowout regime

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  53. High Orbital Angular Momentum Harmonic Generation

    Article • Physical Review Letters, December 2016, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  54. Electron–positron cascades in multiple-laser optical traps

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, November 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  55. 3D PIC SIMULATIONS OF COLLISIONLESS SHOCKS AT LUNAR MAGNETIC ANOMALIES AND THEIR ROLE IN FORMING LUNAR SWIRLS

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, October 2016, American Astronomical Society

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca, Fábio Cruz

  56. AWAKE, The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment at CERN

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, September 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  57. Path to AWAKE: Evolution of the concept

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, September 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  58. Optimizing laser-driven proton acceleration from overdense targets

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  59. Quantum radiation reaction in head-on laser-electron beam interaction

    Article • New Journal of Physics, July 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  60. Classical radiation reaction in particle-in-cell simulations

    Article • Computer Physics Communications, July 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  61. Enabling Lorentz boosted frame particle-in-cell simulations of laser wakefield acceleration in quasi-3D geometry

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, July 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  62. Laser absorption via quantum electrodynamics cascades in counter propagating laser pulses

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  63. The generation of magnetic fields by the Biermann battery and the interplay with the Weibel instability

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  64. AWAKE: A Proton-Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment at CERN

    Article • Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings, April 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  65. Amplification and generation of ultra-intense twisted laser pulses via stimulated Raman scattering

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  66. Modeling of laser wakefield acceleration in Lorentz boosted frame using a Quasi-3D OSIRIS algorithm

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  67. Positron plasma wakefield acceleration in a self-driven hollow channel

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  68. QED vs. classical radiation reaction in the transition regime

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  69. Raman scattering for intense high orbital angular momentum harmonic generation

    Article • January 2016, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  70. Mitigation of numerical Cerenkov radiation and instability using a hybrid finite difference-FFT Maxwell solver and a local charge conserving current deposit

    Article • Computer Physics Communications, December 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  71. Modelling radiation emission in the transition from the classical to the quantum regime

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, November 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  72. Slow down of a globally neutral relativistice−e+beam shearing the vacuum

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, November 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  73. Physics of collisionless shocks: theory and simulation

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, October 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  74. Transverse electron-scale instability in relativistic shear flows

    Article • Physical Review E, August 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  75. Elimination of the numerical Cerenkov instability for spectral EM-PIC codes

    Article • Computer Physics Communications, July 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  76. Particle merging algorithm for PIC codes

    Article • Computer Physics Communications, June 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  77. Spatial-temporal evolution of the current filamentation instability

    Article • New Journal of Physics, April 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  78. SHOCK FORMATION IN ELECTRON–ION PLASMAS: MECHANISM AND TIMING

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, April 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  79. Implementation of a hybrid particle code with a PIC description in r–z and a gridless description in ϕ into OSIRIS

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  80. Electron trapping and acceleration by the plasma wakefield of a self-modulating proton beam

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, December 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  81. All-Optical Radiation Reaction at1021  W/cm2

    Article • Physical Review Letters, September 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  82. Electromagnetic Field Generation in the Downstream of Electrostatic Shocks Due to Electron Trapping

    Article • Physical Review Letters, September 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  83. Demonstration of laser pulse amplification by stimulated Brillouin scattering

    Article • High Power Laser Science and Engineering, September 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  84. SEP ACCELERATION IN CME DRIVEN SHOCKS USING A HYBRID CODE

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, August 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  85. Proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration: a path to the future of high-energy particle physics

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, July 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  86. Modeling of laser wakefield acceleration in Lorentz boosted frame using EM-PIC code with spectral solver

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, June 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  87. Enhanced stopping of macro-particles in particle-in-cell simulations

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  88. Ion motion in the wake driven by long particle bunches in plasmas

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  89. Magnetic-Field Generation and Amplification in an Expanding Plasma

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  90. Electron-scale shear instabilities: magnetic field generation and particle acceleration in astrophysical jets

    Article • New Journal of Physics, March 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  91. Exploring the nature of collisionless shocks under laboratory conditions

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  92. Exploiting multi-scale parallelism for large scale numerical modelling of laser wakefield accelerators

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, November 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  93. Theory of multidimensional electron-scale instabilities in unmagnetized shear flows

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, November 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  94. Numerical instability due to relativistic plasma drift in EM-PIC simulations

    Article • Computer Physics Communications, November 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  95. dc-Magnetic-Field Generation in Unmagnetized Shear Flows

    Article • Physical Review Letters, July 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  96. Theoretical studies of collisionless shocks for laser-acceleration of ions

    Article • May 2013, SPIE

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  97. Ion acceleration from laser-driven electrostatic shocks

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, April 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  98. Kinetics of Particles in Relativistic Collisionless Shocks

    Article • March 2013, Wiley

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  99. 3D simulations of pre-ionized and two-stage ionization injected laser wakefield accelerators

    Article • January 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  100. Modeling of laser wakefield acceleration in the Lorentz boosted frame using OSIRIS and UPIC framework

    Article • January 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  101. Magnetically assisted self-injection and radiation generation for plasma-based acceleration

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, November 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  102. Laser-Driven Shock Acceleration of Monoenergetic Ion Beams

    Article • Physical Review Letters, November 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  103. The impact of kinetic effects on the properties of relativistic electron–positron shocks

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, November 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  104. Ion Motion in Self-Modulated Plasma Wakefield Accelerators

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  105. ACCELERATION IN PERPENDICULAR RELATIVISTIC SHOCKS FOR PLASMAS CONSISTING OF LEPTONS AND HADRONS

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, July 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  106. Weibel-Instability-Mediated Collisionless Shocks in the Laboratory with Ultraintense Lasers

    Article • Physical Review Letters, June 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  107. Effect of the frequency chirp on laser wakefield acceleration

    Article • New Journal of Physics, February 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  108. A proposed demonstration of an experiment of proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration based on CERN SPS

    Article • Journal of Plasma Physics, February 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  109. Characterization of transverse beam emittance of electrons from a laser-plasma wakefield accelerator in the bubble regime using betatron x-ray radiation

    Article • Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams, February 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  110. LARGE-SCALE MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATION VIA THE KINETIC KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY IN UNMAGNETIZED SCENARIOS

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, January 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  111. Collisionless shocks in laser-produced plasma generate monoenergetic high-energy proton beams

    Article • Nature Nanotechnology, November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  112. Numerical Simulation of Plasma-Based Raman Amplification of Laser Pulses to Petawatt Powers

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, November 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  113. Three-Dimensional Simulations of Laser–Plasma Interactions at Ultrahigh Intensities

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, November 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  114. X-Ray Modeling in Laser-Wakefield Accelerators

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, November 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  115. An experimental study of an efficient supercapacitor stacking scheme to power mobile phones

    Article • October 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca, Nuno Garrido

  116. Efficient supercapacitor energy usage in mobile phones

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca, Nuno Garrido

  117. Production of Picosecond, Kilojoule, and Petawatt Laser Pulses via Raman Amplification of Nanosecond Pulses

    Article • Physical Review Letters, August 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  118. Studying ignition schemes on European laser facilities

    Article • Nuclear Fusion, August 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  119. Mechanism of generating fast electrons by an intense laser at a steep overdense interface

    Article • Physical Review E, August 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  120. Magnetic Control of Particle Injection in Plasma Based Accelerators

    Article • Physical Review Letters, May 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  121. Efficient modeling of laser–plasma interactions in high energy density scenarios

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, May 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  122. PIC Codes in New Processors: A Full Relativistic PIC Code in CUDA-Enabled Hardware With Direct Visualization

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, February 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  123. Study of near-GeV acceleration of electrons in a non-linear plasma wave driven by a self-guided laser pulse

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, December 2010, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  124. All-Optical Steering of Laser-Wakefield-Accelerated Electron Beams

    Article • Physical Review Letters, November 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  125. Bright spatially coherent synchrotron X-rays from a table-top source

    Article • Nature Nanotechnology, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  126. Simulations of efficient Raman amplification into the multipetawatt regime

    Article • Nature Nanotechnology, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  127. Self-Guided Laser Wakefield Acceleration beyond 1 GeV Using Ionization-Induced Injection

    Article • Physical Review Letters, September 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  128. Special Issue on the Numerical Simulation of Plasmas

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, September 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  129. Relativistic effects on the collisionless–collisional transition of the filamentation instability in fast ignition

    Article • Journal of Plasma Physics, August 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  130. Modeling laser wakefield accelerator experiments with ultrafast particle-in-cell simulations in boosted frames

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  131. Numerical simulations of laser wakefield accelerators in optimal Lorentz frames

    Article • Computer Physics Communications, May 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  132. Electron trapping and acceleration on a downward density ramp: a two-stage approach

    Article • New Journal of Physics, April 2010, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  133. Exploring laser-wakefield-accelerator regimes for near-term lasers using particle-in-cell simulation in Lorentz-boosted frames

    Article • Nature Nanotechnology, March 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  134. THE NONLINEAR SATURATION OF THE NON-RESONANT KINETICALLY DRIVEN STREAMING INSTABILITY

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, February 2010, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  135. Exploring the future of laser-plasma acceleration with massively parallel simulations in OSIRIS

    Article • January 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  136. Radiation in 1.5 GeV and 12 GeV Laser Wakefield Acceleration Stages from PIC Simulations

    Article • January 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  137. Measurements of the Critical Power for Self-Injection of Electrons in a Laser Wakefield Accelerator

    Article • Physical Review Letters, November 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  138. Publisher’s Note: Near-GeV Acceleration of Electrons by a Nonlinear Plasma Wave Driven by a Self-Guided Laser Pulse [Phys. Rev. Lett.103, 035002 (2009)]

    Article • Physical Review Letters, July 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  139. Near-GeV Acceleration of Electrons by a Nonlinear Plasma Wave Driven by a Self-Guided Laser Pulse

    Article • Physical Review Letters, July 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  140. Recent results and future challenges for large scale particle-in-cell simulations of plasma-based accelerator concepts

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, July 2009, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  141. Simulating relativistic beam and plasma systems using an optimal boosted frame

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, July 2009, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  142. Radiation post-processing in PIC codes

    Article • May 2009, SPIE

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  143. Short-wavelength magnetic structures from the plasma magnetic mode and their applications

    Article • May 2009, SPIE

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  144. Towards a compact 0.1-10 MeV broadband betatron photon source

    Article • May 2009, SPIE

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  145. A simulation study of fast ignition with ultrahigh intensity lasers

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  146. Beam loading by electrons in nonlinear plasma wakes

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  147. ION DYNAMICS AND ACCELERATION IN RELATIVISTIC SHOCKS

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, April 2009, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  148. Laser electron acceleration with 10 PW lasers

    Article • Comptes Rendus Physique, March 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  149. Benchmarking the codes VORPAL, OSIRIS, and QuickPIC with Laser Wakefield Acceleration Simulations

    Article • January 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  150. Numerical simulations of LWFA for the next generation of laser systems

    Article • January 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  151. Streaming the Boris Pusher: a CUDA implementation

    Article • January 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  152. Expansion of nanoplasmas and laser-driven nuclear fusion in single exploding clusters

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, November 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  153. One-to-one direct modeling of experiments and astrophysical scenarios: pushing the envelope on kinetic plasma simulations

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, November 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  154. The interaction of a flowing plasma with a dipole magnetic field: measurements and modelling of a diamagnetic cavity relevant to spacecraft protection

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, November 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  155. Beam Loading in the Nonlinear Regime of Plasma-Based Acceleration

    Article • Physical Review Letters, September 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  156. Direct Acceleration of Ions With Variable-Frequency Lasers

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, August 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  157. Expansion of a Plasma Cloud Into the Solar Wind

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, August 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  158. Laser and Plasma Accelerators Workshop 2007

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, August 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  159. One-to-One Full-Scale Simulations of Laser-Wakefield Acceleration Using QuickPIC

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, August 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  160. Three-Dimensional Structure of the Laser Wakefield Accelerator in the Blowout Regime

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, August 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  161. Computational studies and optimization of wakefield accelerators

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, July 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  162. Particle-in-cell simulations for fast ignition

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, July 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  163. Hybrid simulations of mini-magnetospheres in the laboratory

    Article • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, June 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  164. Direct observation of betatron oscillations in a laser-plasma electron accelerator

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), February 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  165. Expansion of nanoplasmas and laser-driven nuclear fusion in single exploding clusters

    Article • January 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  166. Generating multi-GeV electron bunches using single stage laser wakefield acceleration in a 3D nonlinear regime

    Article • Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams, June 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  167. Stability of arbitrary electron velocity distribution functions to electromagnetic modes

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, June 2007, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  168. Dynamics and control of the expansion of finite-size plasmas produced in ultraintense laser-matter interactions

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2007, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  169. dHybrid: A massively parallel code for hybrid simulations of space plasmas

    Article • Computer Physics Communications, March 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  170. SHEET CROSSING AND WAVE BREAKING IN THE LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATOR

    Article • International Journal of Modern Physics B, February 2007, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  171. Designing LWFA in the blowout regime

    Article • January 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  172. The physical picture of beam loading in the blowout regime

    Article • January 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  173. Erratum: “Evidence of photon acceleration by laser wake fields” [Phys. Plasmas 13, 033108 (2006)]

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, July 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  174. Controlled shock shells and intracluster fusion reactions in the explosion of large clusters

    Article • Physical Review A, May 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  175. A global simulation for laser-driven MeV electrons in 50-μm-diameter fast ignition targets

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  176. Simulation of monoenergetic electron generation via laser wakefield accelerators for 5–25TW lasers

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  177. Space-Charge Effects in the Current-Filamentation or Weibel Instability

    Article • Physical Review Letters, March 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  178. Evidence of photon acceleration by laser wake fields

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, March 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  179. Very High Mach-Number Electrostatic Shocks in Collisionless Plasmas

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  180. Hose Instability and Wake Generation by an Intense Electron Beam in a Self-Ionized Gas

    Article • Physical Review Letters, January 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  181. Creation and expansion of a magnetized plasma bubble for plasma propulsion

    Article • Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, September 2005, Elsevier

    Professor José Tito Mendonca, Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  182. Physical problems of artificial magnetospheric propulsion

    Article • Journal of Plasma Physics, July 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Professor José Tito Mendonca, Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  183. Three-dimensional wakes driven by intense relativistic beams in gas targets

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, April 2005, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  184. Dynamics and Control of Shock Shells in the Coulomb Explosion of Very Large Deuterium Clusters

    Article • Physical Review Letters, January 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  185. Long-Time Evolution of Magnetic Fields in Relativistic Gamma-Ray Burst Shocks

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, December 2004, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  186. Ion acceleration from the shock front induced by hole boring in ultraintense laser-plasma interactions

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  187. Global Simulation for Laser-Driven MeV Electrons in Fast Ignition

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  188. Near-GeV-Energy Laser-Wakefield Acceleration of Self-Injected Electrons in a Centimeter-Scale Plasma Channel

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  189. Proton Shock Acceleration in Laser-Plasma Interactions

    Article • Physical Review Letters, January 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  190. Pulse Compression and Frequency Up-Shift with Nonlinear\ Plasma Waves

    Article • Physica Scripta, January 2004, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  191. Plasma wakefield acceleration in self-ionized gas or plasmas

    Article • October 2003, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  192. Plasma channels produced by a laser-triggered high-voltage discharge

    Article • September 2003, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  193. Interpenetrating Plasma Shells: Near-Equipartition Magnetic Field Generation and Nonthermal Particle Acceleration

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, September 2003, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  194. Three-dimensional Weibel instability in astrophysical scenarios

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2003, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  195. On the role of the purely transverse Weibel instability in fast ignitor scenarios

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, June 2002, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  196. On the mutual interaction between laser beams in plasmas

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, May 2002, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  197. Three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of the Weibel instability in electron-positron plasmas

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, February 2002, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  198. OSIRIS: A Three-Dimensional, Fully Relativistic Particle in Cell Code for Modeling Plasma Based Accelerators

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  199. Collective refraction of a beam of electrons at a plasma-gas interface

    Article • Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams, September 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  200. Refraction of a particle beam

    Article • Nature, May 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  201. High-energy ions produced from cluster explosions

    Article • April 2001, SPIE

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  202. Interaction of ultrashort high-intensity laser pulses with atomic clusters

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, March 2001, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  203. MeV Ions Generated via Coulombic Explosions of Atomic Clusters

    Article • Physica Scripta, January 2001, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  204. Mutual Attraction of Laser Beams in Plasmas: Braided Light

    Article • Physical Review Letters, September 2000, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca

  205. Three-dimensional characterization of high-density non-cylindrical pulsed gas jets

    Article • Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, January 1999, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ricardo A Fonseca