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Enhanced radiation pressure-assisted acceleration by temporally tuned counter-propagating pulses
J. PolzJ. BierbachBastian AurandBastian AurandA.e. PazChristian RödelO. JäckelS. KuschelA. KarmakarBentsian ElkinThomas KuehlThomas KuehlS. HerzerHongwei ZhaoPaul GibbonMalte C. Kaluzasubject
PhysicsNuclear and High Energy Physicsbusiness.industryPlasmaLaserlaw.inventionPulse (physics)IonAccelerationBunchesOpticsRadiation pressurelawPhysics::Accelerator PhysicsAtomic physicsbusinessInstrumentationEnergy (signal processing)description
Within the last decade, laser-ion acceleration has become a field of broad interest. The possibility to generate short proton- or heavy ion bunches with an energy of a few tens of MeV by table-top laser systems could open new opportunities for medical or technical applications. Nevertheless, today's laser-acceleration schemes lead mainly to a temperature-like energy distribution of the accelerated ions, a big disadvantage compared to mono-energetic beams from conventional accelerators. Recent results 111 of laser-ion acceleration using radiation-pressure appear promising to overcome this drawback. In this paper, we demonstrate the influence of a second counter-propagating laser pulse interacting with a nm-thick target, creating a well defined pre-plasma. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. (Less)
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-03-01 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment |