S. Letzring

5.7k citations

62 papers · 3.4k · 3 hit papers · h-index 23

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 0.5%
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
Mechanics of Materials top 0.5%
- Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 50
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics 49
- Magnetic confinement fusion research 5
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 41
- Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications 26
- Atomic and Molecular Physics 11

Co-authors: R. S. Craxton (6 shared papers)T. J. Kessler (4 shared papers)B. M. Hegelich (22 shared papers)J. C. Fernández (19 shared papers)S. Skupsky (4 shared papers)J. M. Soures (2 shared papers)R. W. Short (2 shared papers)B. J. Albright (13 shared papers)
Journals: Review of Scientific Instruments (12 papers)Laser and Particle Beams (4 papers)Physical Review Letters (3 papers)Journal of Applied Physics (2 papers)Optics Communications (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

S. Letzring

59 papers receiving 3.3k citations

S. Letzring's Hit Papers

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Laser acceleration of quasi-monoenergetic MeV ion beams 2006 · 536 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.

2006 Nature
1997 Optics Communications
1989 Journal of Applied Physics

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1	Initial performance results of the OMEGA laser system Optics Communications ·T. R. Boehly, David L. Brown, R. S. Craxton, R. L. Keck, J. P. Knauer, J. H. Kelly, T. J. Kessler, Steve Kumpan, S. J. Loucks, S. Letzring, F. J. Marshall, R. L. McCrory, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, W. Seka, J. M. Soures, C. P. Verdon Hit paper breakdown →	1997	798
2	Improved laser-beam uniformity using the angular dispersion of frequency-modulated light Journal of Applied Physics ·S. Skupsky, R. W. Short, T. J. Kessler, R. S. Craxton, S. Letzring, J. M. Soures Hit paper breakdown →	1989	585
3	Laser acceleration of quasi-monoenergetic MeV ion beams Nature ·B. M. Hegelich, B. J. Albright, J. A. Cobble, Kirk Flippo, S. Letzring, Mark Paffett, H. Rühl, J. Schreiber, R. Schulze, J. C. Fernández Hit paper breakdown →	2006	536
4	Enhanced Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration in the Relativistic Transparency Regime Physical Review Letters ·A. Henig, D. Kiefer, K. Markey, D. C. Gautier, Kirk Flippo, S. Letzring, R. P. Johnson, T. Shimada, L. Yin, B. J. Albright, K. J. Bowers, J. C. Fernández, S. G. Rykovanov, Hongling Wu, M. Zepf, D. Jung, V.Kh. Liechtenstein, J. Schreiber, D. Habs, B. M. Hegelich	2009	181
5	The upgrade to the OMEGA laser system Review of Scientific Instruments ·T. R. Boehly, R. S. Craxton, T. H. Hinterman, (unknown), (unknown), S. Kumpan, S. Letzring, R. L. McCrory, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, W. Seka, S. Skupsky, J. M. Soures, C. P. Verdon	1995	164
6	Dynamics of relativistic transparency and optical shuttering in expanding overdense plasmas Nature Physics ·Sasi Palaniyappan, B. M. Hegelich, Hui-Chun Wu, D. Jung, D. C. Gautier, L. Yin, B. J. Albright, Randall P. Johnson, T. Shimada, S. Letzring, Dustin Offermann, Jun Ren, Chengkun Huang, R. Hörlein, B. Dromey, J. C. Fernández, Rahul Shah	2012	133
7	The Upgrade to the OMEGA Laser System Fusion Technology ·T. R. Boehly, R. S. Craxton, T. H. Hinterman, P. A. Jaanimagi, J. H. Kelly, T. J. Kessler, R. L. Kremens, S. Kumpan, S. Letzring, R. L. McCrory, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, W. Seka, S. Skupsky, J. M. Soures, C. P. Verdon	1994	131
8	Laser-driven ion accelerators: Spectral control, monoenergetic ions and new acceleration mechanisms Laser and Particle Beams ·Kirk Flippo, B. M. Hegelich, B. J. Albright, L. Yin, D. C. Gautier, S. Letzring, Marius Schollmeier, J. Schreiber, R. Schulze, J. C. Fernández	2007	69
9	Dynamics of high-Zplasmas produced by a short-wavelength laser Physical Review Letters ·P. D. Goldstone, S. R. Goldman, W. C. Mead, J. A. Cobble, G. L. Stradling, Robert H. Day, A. Hauer, M. C. Richardson, R. S. Marjoribanks, P. A. Jaanimagi, R. L. Keck, F. J. Marshall, W. Seka, O. Barnouin, B. Yaakobi, S. Letzring	1987	66
10	Laser-ablation treatment of short-pulse laser targets: Toward an experimental program on energetic-ion interactions with dense plasmas Laser and Particle Beams ·J. C. Fernández, B. M. Hegelich, J. A. Cobble, Kirk Flippo, S. Letzring, Randall P. Johnson, D. C. Gautier, T. Shimada, G. A. Kyrala, Yongqiang Wang, Chris Wetteland, J. Schreiber	2005	58
11	Monoenergetic Ion Beam Generation by Driving Ion Solitary Waves with Circularly Polarized Laser Light Physical Review Letters ·D. Jung, L. Yin, B. J. Albright, D. C. Gautier, R. Hörlein, D. Kiefer, A. Henig, R. P. Johnson, S. Letzring, S. Palaniyappan, Rahul Shah, T. Shimada, X. Q. Yan, K. J. Bowers, T. Tajima, J. C. Fernández, D. Habs, B. M. Hegelich	2011	56
12	Efficient carbon ion beam generation from laser-driven volume acceleration New Journal of Physics ·D. Jung, L. Yin, B. J. Albright, D. C. Gautier, S. Letzring, B. Dromey, M. Yeung, R. Hörlein, Raja Mazuir Raja Ahsan Shah, S. Palaniyappan, K. Allinger, J. Schreiber, K. J. Bowers, H-C Wu, J. C. Fernández, D. Habs, B. M. Hegelich	2013	49
13	Development of a high resolution and high dispersion Thomson parabola Review of Scientific Instruments ·D. Jung, R. Hörlein, D. Kiefer, S. Letzring, D. C. Gautier, U. Schramm, C. Hübsch, R. Öhm, B. J. Albright, J. C. Fernández, D. Habs, B. M. Hegelich	2011	47
14	Laser-driven implosion of thermonuclear fuel to 20 to 40 g cm–3 Nature ·R. L. McCrory, J. M. Soures, C. P. Verdon, F. J. Marshall, S. Letzring, S. Skupsky, T. J. Kessler, R. L. Kremens, J. P. Knauer, H. Kim, J. A. Delettrez, R. L. Keck, D. K. Bradley	1988	46
15	The omega high-power phosphate-glass system: Design and performance IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics ·J. Bunkenberg, John Boles, David C. Brown, Jay M. Eastman, J. Hoose, Raewyn J. Hopkins, L. Iwan, Stephen D. Jacobs, J. H. Kelly, S. Kumpan, S. Letzring, D. J. Lonobile, L. D. Lund, G. Mourou, Stanley Refermat, W. Seka, J. M. Soures, K. Walse	1981	46
16	Laser-driven 1 GeV carbon ions from preheated diamond targets in the break-out afterburner regime Physics of Plasmas ·D. Jung, L. Yin, D. C. Gautier, H. C. Wu, S. Letzring, B. Dromey, Rahul Shah, S. Palaniyappan, T. Shimada, R. P. Johnson, J. Schreiber, D. Habs, J. C. Fernández, B. M. Hegelich, B. J. Albright	2013	41
17	Beam profiles of proton and carbon ions in the relativistic transparency regime New Journal of Physics ·D. Jung, B. J. Albright, L. Yin, D. C. Gautier, Rahul Shah, S. Palaniyappan, S. Letzring, B. Dromey, H-C Wu, T. Shimada, R. P. Johnson, M. Roth, J. C. Fernández, D. Habs, B. M. Hegelich	2013	40
18	Thermal transport measurements in 1.05 μm laser irradiation of spherical targets The Physics of Fluids ·B. Yaakobi, J. A. Delettrez, L. M. Goldman, R. L. McCrory, R. S. Marjoribanks, M. C. Richardson, D. Shvarts, S. Skupsky, J. M. Soures, C. P. Verdon, D. M. Villeneuve, T. R. Boehly, R. J. Hutchinson, S. Letzring	1984	37
19	High-resolution Thomson parabola for ion analysis Review of Scientific Instruments ·J.A. Cobble, Kirk Flippo, Dustin Offermann, F. E. Lopez, J. A. Oertel, D. Mastrosimone, S. Letzring, N. Sinenian	2011	34
20	Scaling laws for energetic ions from the commissioning of the new Los Alamos National Laboratory 200 TW Trident laser Review of Scientific Instruments ·Kirk Flippo, J. Workman, D. C. Gautier, S. Letzring, R. P. Johnson, T. Shimada	2008	28

About S. Letzring

S. Letzring is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Mechanics of Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Geophysics, having authored 62 papers that have together received 3.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (49 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (29 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (26 papers), Laser Design and Applications (12 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (11 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (11 papers), Solid State Laser Technologies (6 papers) and Magnetic confinement fusion research (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (3.0k citations), Mechanics of Materials (1.9k citations), Geophysics (994 citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (1.8k citations) and Radiation (387 citations). S. Letzring has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include R. S. Craxton, T. J. Kessler, B. M. Hegelich, J. C. Fernández, S. Skupsky, J. M. Soures, R. W. Short, B. J. Albright, Kirk Flippo and J. Schreiber. Their work appears in journals such as Review of Scientific Instruments, Laser and Particle Beams, Physical Review Letters, Journal of Applied Physics and Optics Communications.

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