Ion acceleration by superintense laser-plasma interaction

A Macchi, M Borghesi, M Passoni - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2013 - APS
Ion acceleration driven by superintense laser pulses is attracting an impressive and steadily
increasing effort. Motivations can be found in the applicative potential and in the perspective …

Review of laser-driven ion sources and their applications

H Daido, M Nishiuchi… - Reports on progress in …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
For many years, laser-driven ion acceleration, mainly proton acceleration, has been
proposed and a number of proof-of-principle experiments have been carried out with lasers …

Radiation-pressure acceleration of ion beams driven by circularly polarized laser pulses

A Henig, S Steinke, M Schnürer, T Sokollik, R Hörlein… - Physical Review Letters, 2009 - APS
We present experimental studies on ion acceleration from ultrathin diamondlike carbon foils
irradiated by ultrahigh contrast laser pulses of energy 0.7 J focused to peak intensities of 5× …

Relativistically correct hole-boring and ion acceleration by circularly polarized laser pulses

APL Robinson, P Gibbon, M Zepf, S Kar… - Plasma Physics and …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
The problem of the'hole-boring'(HB)-type of radiation pressure acceleration of ions by
circularly polarized laser pulses interacting with overdense plasmas is considered in the …

Monoenergetic ion beams from ultrathin foils irradiated<? format?> by ultrahigh-contrast circularly polarized laser pulses

O Klimo, J Psikal, J Limpouch, VT Tikhonchuk - Physical Review Special …, 2008 - APS
Acceleration of ions from ultrathin foils irradiated by intense circularly polarized laser pulses
is investigated using one-and two-dimensional particle simulations. A circularly polarized …

Fast ignition with laser-driven proton and ion beams

JC Fernández, BJ Albright, FN Beg, ME Foord… - Nuclear …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Fusion fast ignition (FI) initiated by a laser-driven particle beam promises a path to high-yield
and high-gain for inertial fusion energy. FI can readily leverage the proven capability of …

Asymmetric chiral metamaterial circular polarizer based on four U-shaped split ring resonators

M Mutlu, AE Akosman, AE Serebryannikov, E Ozbay - Optics letters, 2011 - opg.optica.org
An asymmetric chiral metamaterial structure is constructed by using four double-layered U-
shaped split ring resonators, which are each rotated by 90° with respect to their neighbors …

Relativistic laser piston model: Ponderomotive ion acceleration in dense plasmas using ultraintense laser pulses

T Schlegel, N Naumova, VT Tikhonchuk… - Physics of …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
Laser ponderomotive force at superhigh intensities provides an efficient ion acceleration in
bulk dense targets and evacuates a channel enabling further laser beam propagation. The …

Radiation pressure acceleration of ultrathin foils

A Macchi, S Veghini, TV Liseykina… - New Journal of …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The acceleration of sub-wavelength, solid-density plasma foils by the ultraintense radiation
pressure of circularly polarized laser pulses is investigated analytically and with simulations …

Horizons of petawatt laser technology

AV Korzhimanov, AA Gonoskov, EA Khazanov… - Physics …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
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PROBLEMS Horizons of petawatt laser technology To cite this article: Artem V Korzhimanov et …