C. Brown

4.1k citations

36 papers · 3.4k · 2 hit papers · h-index 17

Impact in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 10%
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics top 5%
- Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
- Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 21
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics 20
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 17
- Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications 9
- Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing 6
- Atomic and Molecular Physics 2

Co-authors: Deanna M. Pennington (18 shared papers)Michael Dean Perry (11 shared papers)H. T. Powell (3 shared papers)Scott C. Wilks (5 shared papers)Stephen P. Hatchett (5 shared papers)T. E. Cowan (4 shared papers)Richard A. Snavely (4 shared papers)J. Johnson (3 shared papers)
Journals: Optics Letters (4 papers)Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment (4 papers)Review of Scientific Instruments (3 papers)Physical Review Letters (2 papers)Laser and Particle Beams (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States Germany Japan

In The Last Decade

C. Brown

32 papers receiving 3.3k citations

C. Brown's Hit Papers

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Fast Ignition by Intense Laser-Accelerated Proton Beams 2001 · 1.1k citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2001 Physical Review Letters
2000 Physics of Plasmas

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1	Fast Ignition by Intense Laser-Accelerated Proton Beams Physical Review Letters ·Markus Roth, T. E. Cowan, Michael H. Key, Stephen P. Hatchett, C. Brown, Walter F. Fountain, J. Johnson, Deanna M. Pennington Hit paper breakdown →	2001	1131
2	Electron, photon, and ion beams from the relativistic interaction of Petawatt laser pulses with solid targets Physics of Plasmas ·Stephen P. Hatchett, C. Brown, T. E. Cowan, E. A. Henry, J. Johnson, Michael H. Key, Jeffrey A. Koch, A. B. Langdon Hit paper breakdown →	2000	846
3	Petawatt laser pulses Optics Letters ·Michael Dean Perry, Deanna M. Pennington, Brent C. Stuart, Gregory L. Tietbohl, Jerald A. Britten, C. Brown, Steve M. Herman, Brad P. Golick	1999	414
4	The W. M. Keck Observatory Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics System: Overview Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific ·Peter L. Wizinowich, David Le Mignant, Antonin H. Bouchez, Randall Campbell, Jason Chin, Adam R. Contos, Marcos A. van Dam, Scott K. Hartman	2006	370
5	Photonuclear Fission from High Energy Electrons from Ultraintense Laser-Solid Interactions Physical Review Letters ·T. E. Cowan, A. Hunt, T. W. Phillips, Scott C. Wilks, Michael Dean Perry, C. Brown, Walter F. Fountain, Stephen P. Hatchett	2000	192
6	An overview of LLNL high-energy short-pulse technology for advanced radiography of laser fusion experiments Nuclear Fusion ·Chris P. J. Barty, Michael H. Key, Jerald A. Britten, Raymond John Beach, Glenn Beer, C. Brown, Steve Bryan, John A. Caird	2004	105
7	Intense electron and proton beams from PetaWatt laser–matter interactions Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment ·T. E. Cowan, Markus Roth, J. Johnson, C. Brown, M. J. Christl, Walter F. Fountain, Stephen P. Hatchett, E. A. Henry	2000	49
8	Petawatt laser system and experiments IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics ·Deanna M. Pennington, C. Brown, T. E. Cowan, Stephen P. Hatchett, E. A. Henry, Steve M. Herman, Michael W. Kartz, Michael H. Key	2000	35
9	The Advanced Test Accelerator (ATA), a 50-MeV, 10-kA Induction Linac IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science ·Louis L. Reginato, Richard J. Briggs, R. E. Hester, Thomas J. Fessenden, K. S. Neil, D. S. Prono, T. S. Perry, D.R. Branum	1983	33
10	125-TW Ti:sapphire/Nd:glass laser system Optics Letters ·Brent C. Stuart, Michael Dean Perry, James E. Miller, Gregory L. Tietbohl, Steve M. Herman, Jerald A. Britten, C. Brown, Deanna M. Pennington	1997	30
11	Electromagnetic pulses at short-pulse laser facilities Journal of Physics Conference Series ·C. Brown, A.L. Throop, David C. Eder, J. R. Kimbrough	2008	30
12	Precision short-pulse damage test station utilizing optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification Review of Scientific Instruments ·Igor Jovanovic, C. Brown, Benoit F. Wattellier, Norman D. Nielsen, William A. Molander, Brent C. Stuart, Deanna M. Pennington, Chris P. J. Barty	2004	25
13	Demonstration of a low electromagnetic pulse laser-driven argon gas jet x-ray source Applied Physics Letters ·N. L. Kugland, B. Aurand, C. Brown, C. Constantin, E. T. Everson, Siegfried Heinz Glenzer, Derek B. Schaeffer, Andreas Tauschwitz	2012	24
14	X-ray imaging of targets irradiated by the Nike KrF laser Review of Scientific Instruments ·C. Brown, John F. Seely, Uri Feldman, S. P. Obenschain, S. E. Bodner, C. Pawley, K. A. Gerber, Victor Serlin	1997	22
15	Precision damage tests of multilayer dielectric gratings for high-energy petawatt lasers Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Igor Jovanovic, C. Brown, Brent C. Stuart, William A. Molander, Norman D. Nielsen, Benoit F. Wattellier, Jerald A. Britten, Deanna M. Pennington	2005	20
16	Petawatt laser system Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Deanna M. Pennington, Michael Dean Perry, Brent C. Stuart, Jerald A. Britten, C. Brown, Steve M. Herman, John Lester Miller, Hoàng Tùng Nguyễn	1997	18
17	Generation of high-contrast millijoule pulses by optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification in periodically poled KTiOPO_4 Optics Letters ·Igor Jovanovic, C. Brown, Christopher A. Ebbers, Chris P. J. Barty, Nicolas Forget, Catherine Leblanc	2005	17
18	Recent science and engineering results with the laser guidestar adaptive optic system at Lick Observatory Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Donald T. Gavel, Elinor L. Gates, Claire Ellen Max, Scot S. Olivier, Brian J. Bauman, Deanna M. Pennington, Bruce Macintosh, Jenny Patience	2003	15
19	High-power laser pulse recirculation for inverse Compton scattering-produced γ -rays Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment ·Igor Jovanovic, Miro Y. Shverdin, David John Gibson, C. Brown	2007	14
20	Time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy of deeply buried tracer layers as a density and temperature diagnostic for the fast ignitor Laser and Particle Beams ·Joachim Koch, Christina A. Back, C. Brown, Kent G. Estabrook, Bruce A. Hammel, S. P. Hatchett, Michael H. Key, Joseph D. Kilkenny	1998	11

About C. Brown

C. Brown is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Computational Mechanics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Radiation, having authored 36 papers that have together received 3.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (20 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (9 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (6 papers), Laser Material Processing Techniques (4 papers), Solid State Laser Technologies (3 papers), Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics (2 papers), Pulsed Power Technology Applications (2 papers) and Atomic and Molecular Physics (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (2.5k citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (657 citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (250 citations), Surfaces, Coatings and Films (72 citations) and Instrumentation (18 citations). C. Brown has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Deanna M. Pennington, Michael Dean Perry, H. T. Powell, Scott C. Wilks, Stephen P. Hatchett, T. E. Cowan, Richard A. Snavely, J. Johnson, Walter F. Fountain and Michael H. Key. Their work appears in journals such as Optics Letters, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, Review of Scientific Instruments, Physical Review Letters and Laser and Particle Beams.

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