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 …

“Light sail” acceleration reexamined

A Macchi, S Veghini, F Pegoraro - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
The dynamics of the acceleration of ultrathin foil targets by the radiation pressure of
superintense, circularly polarized laser pulses is investigated by analytical modeling and …

Monoenergetic proton beams accelerated by a radiation pressure driven shock

CAJ Palmer, NP Dover, I Pogorelsky, M Babzien… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
We report on the acceleration of impurity-free quasimononenergetic proton beams from an
initially gaseous hydrogen target driven by an intense infrared (λ= 10 μ m) laser. The front …

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 …

Relativistic laser-matter interaction and relativistic laboratory astrophysics

SV Bulanov, TZ Esirkepov, D Habs, F Pegoraro… - The European Physical …, 2009 - Springer
The paper is devoted to the prospects of using the laser radiation interaction with plasmas in
the laboratory relativistic astrophysics context. We discuss the dimensionless parameters …

Laser-driven ion acceleration: methods, challenges and prospects

J Badziak - Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The recent development of laser technology has resulted in the construction of short-pulse
lasers capable of generating fs light pulses with PW powers and intensities exceeding 10 21 …

Quasimonoenergetic proton bunch generation by dual-peaked electrostatic-field acceleration in foils irradiated by an intense linearly polarized laser

HB Zhuo, ZL Chen, W Yu, ZM Sheng, MY Yu, Z **… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
It is found that stable proton acceleration from a thin foil irradiated by a linearly polarized
ultraintense laser can be realized for appropriate foil thickness and laser intensity. A dual …

Advances on studying optical forces: optical manipulation, optical cooling and light induced dynamics

Y Yuan, C Gu, S Huang, L Song… - Journal of Physics D …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical forces is a unique phenomenon derived from light–matter interaction. It took
centuries before people were finally able to measure, and manipulate this extremely tiny …

Modeling of radiation losses in ultrahigh power laser-matter interaction

R Capdessus, E d'Humières, VT Tikhonchuk - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2012 - APS
Radiation losses of electrons in ultraintense laser fields constitute a process that can be
important for electron and ion acceleration and creation of secondary emissions. The …