Year: 2024
Type: preprint
Abstract: Using realistic laser profiles for simulations of laser-plasma interaction is critical to reproduce experimental measurements, but the interface between experiments and simulations can be challenging. Similarly, start-to-end simulations with different codes may require error-prone manipulations to convert between different representations of a laser pulse. In this work, we propose LASY, an open-source Python library to simplify these workflows. Developed through an international collaboration between experimental, theoretical and computational physicists, LASY can be used to initialize a laser profile from an experimental measurement, from a simulation, or from analytics, manipulate it, and write it into a file in compliance with the openPMD standard. This profile can then be used as an input of a simulation code.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, École Polytechnique, École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Paris, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Interactions, Dynamiques et Lasers, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Universität Hamburg
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4393027065