Visualization of High-Intensity Laser-Matter Interactions in Virtual Reality and Web Browser

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F10974938%3A_____%2F25%3A25_86_08" target="_blank" >RIV/10974938:_____/25:25_86_08 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics12050436" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics12050436</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/photonics12050436" target="_blank" >10.3390/photonics12050436</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Visualization of High-Intensity Laser-Matter Interactions in Virtual Reality and Web Browser

Original language description

We present the Virtual Beamline (VBL) application, an interactive web-based platform for visualizing high-intensity laser-matter interactions using particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations, with future potential for experimental data visualization. These interactions include ion acceleration, electron acceleration, gamma-flash generation, electron-positron pair production, and attosecond and spiral pulse generation. Developed at the ELI Beamlines facility, VBL integrates a custom-built WebGL engine with WebXR-based Virtual Reality (VR) support, allowing users to explore complex plasma dynamics in non-VR mode on a computer screen or in fully immersive VR mode using a head-mounted display. The application runs directly in a standard web browser, ensuring broad accessibility. VBL enhances the visualization of PIC simulations by efficiently processing and rendering four main data types: point particles, 1D lines, 2D textures, and 3D volumes. By utilizing interactive 3D visualization, it overcomes the limitations of traditional 2D representations, offering enhanced spatial understanding and real-time manipulation of visualization parameters such as time steps, data layers, and colormaps. Users can interactively explore the visualized data by moving their body or using a controller for navigation, zooming, and rotation. These interactive capabilities improve data exploration and interpretation, making VBL a valuable tool for both scientific analysis and educational outreach. The visualizations are hosted online and freely accessible on our server, providing researchers, the general public, and broader audiences with an interactive tool to explore complex plasma physics simulations. By offering an intuitive and dynamic approach to large-scale datasets, VBL enhances both scientific research and knowledge dissemination in high-intensity laser-matter physics.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10306 - Optics (including laser optics and quantum optics)

Project

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Continuities

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Photonics

ISSN

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e-ISSN

2304-6732

Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

436

UT code for WoS article

001495634600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105006684986