C. Danson

7.4k citations

111 papers · 4.2k · 3 hit papers · h-index 30

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 0.5%
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics top 0.5%
- Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
- Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies

Papers in

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 84
- Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications 61
- Atomic and Molecular Physics 18
- Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies 10
Nuclear and High Energy Physics 74
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics 72

Co-authors: D. Neely (49 shared papers)A. E. Dangor (15 shared papers)Z. Najmudin (16 shared papers)V. Malka (14 shared papers)David Hillier (8 shared papers)N. W. Hopps (6 shared papers)A.P. Fews (6 shared papers)Paul Lee (6 shared papers)
Journals: High Power Laser Science and Engineering (12 papers)Laser and Particle Beams (8 papers)Physics of Plasmas (6 papers)Physical Review Letters (6 papers)IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (6 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom France United States

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C. Danson

107 papers receiving 4.1k citations

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Petawatt class lasers worldwide 2015 · 385 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2015 High Power Laser Science and Engineering
1997 Physics of Plasmas
1995 Nature

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1	Electron acceleration from the breaking of relativistic plasma waves Nature ·A. Modena, Z. Najmudin, A. E. Dangor, C. E. Clayton, K. A. Marsh, C. Joshi, V. Malka, C. B. Darrow, C. Danson, D. Neely, Florian Walsh Hit paper breakdown →	1995	652
2	A study of picosecond laser–solid interactions up to 1019 W cm−2 Physics of Plasmas ·F. N. Beg, A. R. Bell, A. E. Dangor, C. Danson, A.P. Fews, Michael E. Glinsky, B. A. Hammel, Paul Lee, P. A. Norreys, M. Tatarakis Hit paper breakdown →	1997	502
3	Petawatt class lasers worldwide High Power Laser Science and Engineering ·C. Danson, David Hillier, N. W. Hopps, D. Neely Hit paper breakdown →	2015	385
4	Efficient Extreme UV Harmonics Generated from Picosecond Laser Pulse Interactions with Solid Targets Physical Review Letters ·P. A. Norreys, M. Zepf, S. Moustaizis, A.P. Fews, Jie Zhang, Paul Lee, Makis Bakarezos, C. Danson, A. Dyson, P. Gibbon, P. A. Loukakos, D. Neely, FN Walsh, J. S. Wark, A. E. Dangor	1996	242
5	Observation of Electron Energies Beyond the Linear Dephasing Limit from a Laser-Excited Relativistic Plasma Wave Physical Review Letters ·D. Gordon, K. C. Tzeng, C. E. Clayton, A. E. Dangor, V. Malka, K. A. Marsh, A. Modena, W. B. Mori, P. Muggli, Z. Najmudin, D. Neely, C. Danson, C. Joshi	1998	177
6	Plasma Ion Emission from High Intensity Picosecond Laser Pulse Interactions with Solid Targets Physical Review Letters ·A.P. Fews, P. A. Norreys, F. N. Beg, A. R. Bell, A. E. Dangor, C. Danson, Paul Lee, S. J. Rose	1994	171
7	Multi-MeV Ion Production from High-Intensity Laser Interactions with Underdense Plasmas Physical Review Letters ·K. Krushelnick, Ε. L. Clark, Z. Najmudin, M. Salvati, M. Santala, M. Tatarakis, A. E. Dangor, V. Malka, D. Neely, R. Allott, C. Danson	1999	140
8	A Saturated X-ray Laser Beam at 7 Nanometers Science ·Jie Zhang, A. G. MacPhee, J.‐Y. Lin, E. Wolfrum, Rowan J. Smith, C. Danson, M. H. Key, C. L. S. Lewis, D. Neely, Joseph Nilsen, G. J. Pert, G. J. Tallents, J. S. Wark	1997	112
9	Generation of terawatt pulses by use of optical parametric chirped pulse amplification Applied Optics ·I. N. Ross, John Collier, Pavel Matousek, C. Danson, D. Neely, R. Allott, D. Pepler, Cristina Hernandez–Gomez, K. Osvay	2000	105
10	35 J broadband femtosecond optical parametric chirped pulse amplification system Optics Letters ·O. Chekhlov, J. L. Collier, I. N. Ross, Philip K. Bates, M. Notley, Cristina Hernandez–Gomez, W. Shaikh, C. Danson, D. Neely, Pavel Matousek, S. Hancock, L. Cardoso	2006	100
11	Ultrahigh-intensity laser-produced plasmas as a compact heavy ion injection source IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science ·K. Krushelnick, Ε. L. Clark, R. Allott, F. N. Beg, C. Danson, A. Machacek, V. Malka, Z. Najmudin, D. Neely, P. A. Norreys, M. Salvati, M. Santala, M. Tatarakis, I. Watts, M. Zepf, A. E. Dangor	2000	98
12	Indirect and direct laser driven shock waves and applications to copper equation of state measurements in the 10–40 Mbar pressure range Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics ·(unknown), Thorsten Löwer, (unknown), B. Faral, Dimitri Batani, Daniele Beretta, C. Danson, D. Pepler	1996	76
13	Demonstration of Saturation in a Ni-like Ag X-Ray Laser at 14 nm Physical Review Letters ·Jie Zhang, A. G. MacPhee, Joseph Nilsen, J.‐Y. Lin, Troy W. Barbee, C. Danson, M. H. Key, C. L. S. Lewis, D. Neely, R.M.N. OʼRourke, G. J. Pert, R. F. Smith, G. J. Tallents, J. S. Wark, E. Wolfrum	1997	74
14	Laser Challenges for Fast Ignition Fusion Science & Technology ·J. D. Zuegel, S. Borneis, C. P. J. Barty, Bruno LeGarrec, C. Danson, N. Miyanaga, Patrick K. Rambo, Christophe Leblanc, T. J. Kessler, Ansgar W. Schmid, L. J. Waxer, J. H. Kelly, B. E. Kruschwitz, R. Jungquist, E. I. Moses, Jerald A. Britten, Igor Jovanovic, J. Dawson, N. Blanchot	2006	74
15	Saturated operation of a transient collisional x-ray laser Physical Review A ·M.P. Kalachnikov, P. V. Nickles, M. Schnürer, W. Sandner, Vyacheslav N. Shlyaptsev, C. Danson, D. Neely, E. Wolfrum, Jie Zhang, Abbas Behjat, A. Demir, G. J. Tallents, P.J. Warwick, C. L. S. Lewis	1998	66
16	Observation of Raman forward scattering and electron acceleration in the relativistic regime IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science ·A. Modena, Z. Najmudin, A. E. Dangor, C. E. Clayton, K. A. Marsh, C. Joshi, V. Malka, C. B. Darrow, C. Danson	1996	55
17	Second harmonic generation and its interaction with relativistic plasma waves driven by forward Raman instability in underdense plasmas Physics of Plasmas ·V. Malka, A. Modena, Z. Najmudin, A. E. Dangor, C. E. Clayton, K. A. Marsh, C. Joshi, C. Danson, D. Neely, Florian Walsh	1997	53
18	Binary-phase zone plate arrays for the generation of uniform focal profiles Optics Letters ·R. M. Stevenson, D. Pepler, C. Danson, Michael Norman, T. H. Bett, I. N. Ross	1994	51
19	Demonstration of High Gain in a Recombination XUV Laser at 18.2 nm Driven by a 20 J, 2 ps Glass Laser Physical Review Letters ·Jie Zhang, M. H. Key, P. A. Norreys, G. J. Tallents, Abbas Behjat, C. Danson, A. Demir, L. Dwivedi, Matthew T. G. Holden, Philip B. Holden, C. L. S. Lewis, A. G. MacPhee, D. Neely, G. J. Pert, S. A. Ramsden, S. J. Rose, Yaping Shao, O. Thomas, Florian Walsh, Yang You	1995	50
20	The effect of high intensity laser propagation instabilities on channel formation in underdense plasmas Physics of Plasmas ·Z. Najmudin, K. Krushelnick, M. Tatarakis, Ε. L. Clark, C. Danson, V. Malka, D. Neely, M. Santala, A. E. Dangor	2003	49

About C. Danson

C. Danson is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Mechanics of Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computational Mechanics, having authored 111 papers that have together received 4.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (72 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (61 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (41 papers), Laser Design and Applications (24 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (18 papers), Solid State Laser Technologies (14 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (10 papers) and Laser Material Processing Techniques (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (3.4k citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (2.9k citations), Mechanics of Materials (2.1k citations), Geophysics (780 citations) and Radiation (371 citations). C. Danson has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and United States. Frequent co-authors include D. Neely, A. E. Dangor, Z. Najmudin, V. Malka, David Hillier, N. W. Hopps, A.P. Fews, Paul Lee, A. Modena and C. Joshi. Their work appears in journals such as High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Laser and Particle Beams, Physics of Plasmas, Physical Review Letters and IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science.

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