Laser Driven Ion Acceleration
Influence of radiation reaction force on ultraintense laser-driven ion acceleration
... on ion acceleration are explored in several numerical ...an ion en- ergy enhancement with thin targets due to modification of the electron phase space, by modeling the interaction of a ...
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Energy exchange via multi-species streaming in laser-driven ion acceleration
... starting acceleration of a population of ...the ion-ion acoustic instability achieving saturation (observed in the phase-space vortex formed in Fig ...
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Henig, Andreas (2010): Advanced Approaches to High Intensity Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Physik
... Nd:YAG laser of energy 1 J at a wavelength of 532 nm, a setup very similar to the type 1 TRIDENT front end but without SPOPA ...NOVA laser formerly located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ...
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Multi-pulse enhanced laser ion acceleration using plasma half cavity targets
... of laser plasma interactions has become an area of growing interest, with the advance of laser parame- ters over the past two decades paving the way toward appli- ...power laser facilities, ions can ...
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Polarization dependence of bulk ion acceleration from ultrathin foils irradiated by high intensity, ultrashort laser pulses
... Laser driven ion acceleration is an area of research at- tracting considerable interest [1, 2], due to a number of attractive features, such as the compactness of the ap- proach compared to ...
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Carbon ion acceleration from thin foil targets irradiated by ultrahigh-contrast, ultraintense laser pulses
... intense laser pulses with thin solid targets has received a great deal of experimental and theoretical interest since multi-MeV-energy ions were first demonstrated in 2000 ...[1–4]. Laser-generated ...
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Preferential enhancement of laser-driven carbon ion acceleration from optimized nanostructured surfaces
... ultrashort laser pulses focused on metal targets readily generate hot dense plasmas which accelerate ions efficiently and can pave way to compact table-top ...accelerators. Laser- driven ion ...
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Near-100 MeV protons via a laser-driven transparency-enhanced hybrid acceleration scheme
... Representative proton spectra are shown in Fig. 9b for four example thicknesses. Case A, ‘ = 1 μm, is in the TNSA- dominated thickness regime and the resultant spectrum is a thermal distribution with a relatively low ...
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Towards optical polarization control of laser-driven proton acceleration in foils undergoing relativistic transparency
... petawatt) laser pulses to drive collective electron motion in plasma has given rise to compact laser-based particle accelerators with potentially wide-ranging applications in science, industry and medicine ...
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Time of flight based diagnostics for high energy laser driven ion beams
... of ion sources generated by the interaction of 1 PW laser pulse (30 J, 30 fs), with a solid target at high repetition rate, (1-10 ...of laser plasma acceleration ...to laser-transport ...
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Intra-pulse transition between ion acceleration mechanisms in intense laser-foil interactions
... of ion acceleration: TNSA driven by energetic electrons early in the interaction; a hole-boring-RPA phase in which Al ions are accelerated into the back of the expanding proton layer, giving rise to ...
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Heavy ion acceleration in the radiation pressure acceleration and breakout afterburner regimes
... cost. Laser-driven accelerators can generate heavy ion beams with energy in excess of 1 GeV, high directionality (<10 degree) and large fluxes (>10 11 ...heavy ion beams depends ...
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Enhancement of proton energy by polarization switch in laser acceleration of multi-ion foils
... advancing laser particle acceleration schemes for medical applications such as proton cancer therapy, where the proton energy is required to be tunable in the range of 50–250 MeV and to be monoenergetic in ...
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Kreuzer, Christian (2018): Technological developments for Laser Ion Acceleration. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Physik
... in laser pulse generation and intensities rising to a critical level 1 , ions in the MeV/nucleon range became accessible starting in the early 2000s [91, 33, ...maximum laser intensity achieved in the lab- ...
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Towards optical polarization control of laser-driven proton acceleration in foils undergoing relativistic transparency
... petawatt) laser pulses to drive collective electron motion in plasma has given rise to compact laser-based particle accelerators with potentially wide-ranging applications in science, industry and medicine ...
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Ion acceleration with radiation pressure in quantum electrodynamic regimes
... [20] Akli, K. U., Hansen, S. B., Kemp, A. J., Freeman, R. R., Beg, F. N., Clark, D. C., Chen, S. D., Hey, D., Hatchett, S. P., Highbarger, K., Giraldez, E., Green, J. S., Gregori, G., Lancaster, K. L., Ma, T., MacKinnon, ...
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Schreiber, Jörg (2006): Ion Acceleration driven by High-Intensity Laser Pulses. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Physik
... for laser-driven acceleration of monoenergetic ion beams using specifically designed and treated ...future laser-based accelerators much more ...
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Laser wakefield acceleration with active feedback at 5 Hz
... gas. Ion expansion determines the extent of electron extraction from the cluster cores and the heating of these ...the laser pulse and are strongly affected by the temporal intensity ...the laser- ...
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Ionization induced electron injection in laser wakefield acceleration
... frequency laser pulse, which makes the inner shell ionization occurring only in a single ...ω laser gives a single injected electron bunch with final energy spread less than 0 ...combined laser ...
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Popp, Antonia (2011): Dynamics of electron-acceleration in laser-driven wakefields: Acceleration limits and asymmetric plasma waves. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Physik
... electron acceleration on a circular path, in later generations, however, dedicated insertion devices, such as bending magnets, wigglers or undulators are used for controlled X-ray ...of acceleration ...
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