An intense laser pulse propagating at near the speed of light is here seen driving a non-linear plasma wave in the “bubble regime”, a self-injected electron bunch being accelerated by the fields of this wave appear in a rotated “pi” geometry in this snapshot.

A shadowgraphy image of two colliding blast waves in a gas jet. The blast waves modify the gas density profile to make a thin dense region suitable for ion acceleration.

A microtomographic reconstruction of a human femoral bone sample, generated from x-ray images taken at multiple angles with a laser wakefield accelerator.

3 meter long, 2 cm diameter argon plasma source. An arc discharge between the electrodes at the tube extremities heat producing an ionisation rate close to 1.

An x-ray image of a fish using x-rays from a betatron source.