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 …

[HTML][HTML] Instrumentation for diagnostics and control of laser-accelerated proton (ion) beams

PR Bolton, M Borghesi, C Brenner, DC Carroll… - Physica Medica, 2014 - Elsevier
Suitable instrumentation for laser-accelerated proton (ion) beams is critical for development
of integrated, laser-driven ion accelerator systems. Instrumentation aimed at beam …

[HTML][HTML] Current status and highlights of the ELI-NP research program

KA Tanaka, KM Spohr, DL Balabanski… - Matter and Radiation …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The emergence of a new era reaching beyond current state-of-the-art ultrashort and
ultraintense laser technology has been enabled by the approval of around€ 850 million …

Radiation pressure acceleration of protons to 93 MeV with circularly polarized petawatt laser pulses

IJ Kim, KH Pae, IW Choi, CL Lee, HT Kim… - Physics of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
The radiation pressure acceleration (RPA) of charged particles has been a challenging task
in laser-driven proton/ion acceleration due to its stringent requirements in laser and target …

Laser-driven proton acceleration enhancement by nanostructured foils

D Margarone, O Klimo, IJ Kim, J Prokůpek, J Limpouch… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
Nanostructured thin plastic foils have been used to enhance the mechanism of laser-driven
proton beam acceleration. In particular, the presence of a monolayer of polystyrene …

Transition of Proton Energy Scaling Using an Ultrathin Target Irradiated<? format?> by Linearly Polarized Femtosecond Laser Pulses

IJ Kim, KH Pae, CM Kim, HT Kim, JH Sung, SK Lee… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
Particle acceleration using ultraintense, ultrashort laser pulses is one of the most attractive
topics in relativistic laser-plasma research. We report proton and/or ion acceleration in the …

Super-heavy ions acceleration driven by ultrashort laser pulses at ultrahigh intensity

P Wang, Z Gong, SG Lee, Y Shou, Y Geng, C Jeon… - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
The acceleration of super-heavy ions (SHIs, mass number of about 200) from plasmas
driven by ultrashort (tens of femtoseconds) laser pulses is a challenging topic awaiting a …

ELIMAIA: A laser-driven ion accelerator for multidisciplinary applications

D Margarone, GAP Cirrone, G Cuttone, A Amico… - Quantum Beam …, 2018 - mdpi.com
The main direction proposed by the community of experts in the field of laser-driven ion
acceleration is to improve particle beam features (maximum energy, charge, emittance …

Coulomb-driven energy boost of heavy ions for laser-plasma acceleration

J Braenzel, AA Andreev, K Platonov, M Klingsporn… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
An unprecedented increase of kinetic energy of laser accelerated heavy ions is
demonstrated. Ultrathin gold foils have been irradiated by an ultrashort laser pulse at a peak …

Automation of target delivery and diagnostic systems for high repetition rate laser-plasma acceleration

T Chagovets, S Stanček, L Giuffrida, A Velyhan… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fast solid target delivery and plasma-ion detection systems have been designed and
developed to be used in high intensity laser-matter interaction experiments. We report on …