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 …

Review on experimental and theoretical investigations of ultra-short pulsed laser ablation of metals with burst pulses

DJ Förster, B Jäggi, A Michalowski… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Laser processing with ultra-short double pulses has gained attraction since the beginning of
the 2000s. In the last decade, pulse bursts consisting of multiple pulses with a delay of …

Laser-driven x-ray and neutron source development for industrial applications of plasma accelerators

CM Brenner, SR Mirfayzi, DR Rusby… - Plasma Physics and …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Pulsed beams of energetic x-rays and neutrons from intense laser interactions with solid
foils are promising for applications where bright, small emission area sources, capable of …

[HTML][HTML] High energy conversion efficiency in laser-proton acceleration by controlling laser-energy deposition onto thin foil targets

CM Brenner, APL Robinson, K Markey… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
An all-optical approach to laser-proton acceleration enhancement is investigated using the
simplest of target designs to demonstrate application-relevant levels of energy conversion …

Monoenergetic high-energy ion source via femtosecond laser interacting with a microtape

XF Shen, A Pukhov, B Qiao - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
Intense laser-plasma ion sources are characterized by an unsurpassed acceleration
gradient and exceptional beam emittance. They are promising candidates for next …

Optimization of plasma mirror reflectivity and optical quality using double laser pulses

GG Scott, V Bagnoud, C Brabetz, RJ Clarke… - New Journal of …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We measure a record 96±2.5% specularly reflected energy fraction from an interaction with
a plasma mirror (PM) surface preionized by a controlled prepulse and find that the optical …

Enhanced target normal sheath acceleration using colliding laser pulses

J Ferri, E Siminos, T Fülöp - Communications Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Laser-solid interaction can lead to the acceleration of protons to tens of MeV. Here, we show
that a strong enhancement of this acceleration can be achieved by splitting the laser pulse to …

Controlling fast-electron-beam divergence using two laser pulses

RHH Scott, C Beaucourt, HP Schlenvoigt, K Markey… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
This Letter describes the first experimental demonstration of the guiding of a relativistic
electron beam in a solid target using two colinear, relativistically intense, picosecond laser …

[HTML][HTML] Laser-to-proton conversion efficiency studies for proton fast ignition

AJ Kemp, SC Wilks, M Tabak - Physics of Plasmas, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We assess the conversion efficiency from intense picosecond laser pulses to multi-MeV ion
beams for a wide range of laser and target parameters, using 2D kinetic particle-in-cell …