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 …

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 …

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× …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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