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Supervisor's Foreword; Abstract; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; References; 2 Introduction on High Intensity Laser-Plasma Interaction and High Field Plasmonics; 2.1 Evolution of High Intensity Laser Technology; 2.1.1 Overview; 2.1.2 A Typical High Intensity Ti:Sapphire Laser System; 2.1.3 Towards 10 PW Laser Systems; 2.2 Relativistic Laser Plasma Interaction; 2.2.1 Single Particle Motion; 2.2.2 Propagation of EM Waves in a Plasma; 2.2.3 Relativistic Kinetic Equations; 2.2.4 Energy Absorption with Overdense Targets; 2.2.5 Target Normal Sheath Acceleration (TNSA).
2.2.6 Radiation Reaction Force and QED Effects2.2.7 Applications; 2.3 High Field Plasmonics; 2.3.1 Excitation of Surface Plasmons; 2.3.2 Overview of Plasmonic Schemes and Applications; 2.3.3 Outlook for Relativistic Plasmonics; References; 3 Numerical Tools; 3.1 Numerical Simulations of Plasma Physics; 3.2 Particle-In-Cell Codes; 3.3 PICCANTE: An Open-Source PIC Code; 3.3.1 Optimization of Piccante; 3.4 PICcolino: A Spectral PIC Code; 3.5 Applications; 3.5.1 Weibel Instability in Pair-Plasmas; 3.5.2 Intense Laser Interaction with Thin Gold Targets; References.
4 Electron Acceleration with Grating Targets4.1 Introduction and Previous Results; 4.1.1 Previous Experimental Investigations; 4.1.2 Previous Theoretical and Numerical Investigations; 4.2 Experimental Campaign at CEA-Saclay; 4.2.1 Experimental Setup; 4.2.2 Experimental Results; 4.3 Numerical Simulations; 4.3.1 2D Simulation Campaign; 4.3.2 3D Simulation Campaign; 4.4 Theory of Surface Plasmon Acceleration; 4.5 Experimental Campaign at GIST; 4.5.1 Laser System; 4.5.2 Experimental Set-Up; 4.5.3 Preliminary Results; 4.6 Conclusions; References; 5 Foam Targets for Enhanced Ion Acceleration.
5.1 Introduction5.1.1 Requirements for a Laser-Based Ion Accelerator; 5.1.2 Previous Investigations with Foam Targets; 5.2 Experimental Activity; 5.2.1 Laser System; 5.2.2 Experimental Setup; 5.2.3 Targets; 5.2.4 Experimental Plan (First Campaign); 5.2.5 Experimental Plan (Second Campaign); 5.3 Experimental Results; 5.3.1 First Experimental Campaign: Enhanced Ion Acceleration; 5.3.2 Second Experimental Campaign: Effect of Pulse Length on Ion Acceleration with Foam Targets; 5.4 Numerical Simulations; 5.4.1 2D Simulations; 5.4.2 3D Simulations.
5.4.3 Modelling of Foam Target with Diffusion Limited Aggregation5.5 Conclusions; References; 6 Numerical Exploration of High Field Plasmonics in Different Scenarios; 6.1 Rayleigh
Taylor Instability in Radiation Pressure Acceleration; 6.1.1 Radiation Pressure Acceleration; 6.1.2 Theoretical Model of Laser-Driven Rayleigh
Taylor Instability; 6.1.3 Numerical Simulations; 6.1.4 Conclusions; 6.2 Plasmonic Effects in High Order Harmonic Generation from Grating Targets; 6.2.1 Introduction on HHG with Laser-Based Sources; 6.2.2 Grating Targets as a HHG Source; 6.2.3 Conclusions.
2.2.6 Radiation Reaction Force and QED Effects2.2.7 Applications; 2.3 High Field Plasmonics; 2.3.1 Excitation of Surface Plasmons; 2.3.2 Overview of Plasmonic Schemes and Applications; 2.3.3 Outlook for Relativistic Plasmonics; References; 3 Numerical Tools; 3.1 Numerical Simulations of Plasma Physics; 3.2 Particle-In-Cell Codes; 3.3 PICCANTE: An Open-Source PIC Code; 3.3.1 Optimization of Piccante; 3.4 PICcolino: A Spectral PIC Code; 3.5 Applications; 3.5.1 Weibel Instability in Pair-Plasmas; 3.5.2 Intense Laser Interaction with Thin Gold Targets; References.
4 Electron Acceleration with Grating Targets4.1 Introduction and Previous Results; 4.1.1 Previous Experimental Investigations; 4.1.2 Previous Theoretical and Numerical Investigations; 4.2 Experimental Campaign at CEA-Saclay; 4.2.1 Experimental Setup; 4.2.2 Experimental Results; 4.3 Numerical Simulations; 4.3.1 2D Simulation Campaign; 4.3.2 3D Simulation Campaign; 4.4 Theory of Surface Plasmon Acceleration; 4.5 Experimental Campaign at GIST; 4.5.1 Laser System; 4.5.2 Experimental Set-Up; 4.5.3 Preliminary Results; 4.6 Conclusions; References; 5 Foam Targets for Enhanced Ion Acceleration.
5.1 Introduction5.1.1 Requirements for a Laser-Based Ion Accelerator; 5.1.2 Previous Investigations with Foam Targets; 5.2 Experimental Activity; 5.2.1 Laser System; 5.2.2 Experimental Setup; 5.2.3 Targets; 5.2.4 Experimental Plan (First Campaign); 5.2.5 Experimental Plan (Second Campaign); 5.3 Experimental Results; 5.3.1 First Experimental Campaign: Enhanced Ion Acceleration; 5.3.2 Second Experimental Campaign: Effect of Pulse Length on Ion Acceleration with Foam Targets; 5.4 Numerical Simulations; 5.4.1 2D Simulations; 5.4.2 3D Simulations.
5.4.3 Modelling of Foam Target with Diffusion Limited Aggregation5.5 Conclusions; References; 6 Numerical Exploration of High Field Plasmonics in Different Scenarios; 6.1 Rayleigh
Taylor Instability in Radiation Pressure Acceleration; 6.1.1 Radiation Pressure Acceleration; 6.1.2 Theoretical Model of Laser-Driven Rayleigh
Taylor Instability; 6.1.3 Numerical Simulations; 6.1.4 Conclusions; 6.2 Plasmonic Effects in High Order Harmonic Generation from Grating Targets; 6.2.1 Introduction on HHG with Laser-Based Sources; 6.2.2 Grating Targets as a HHG Source; 6.2.3 Conclusions.