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 …

Ultra-short pulse laser acceleration of protons to 80 MeV from cryogenic hydrogen jets tailored to near-critical density

M Rehwald, S Assenbaum, C Bernert, FE Brack… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Laser plasma-based particle accelerators attract great interest in fields where conventional
accelerators reach limits based on size, cost or beam parameters. Despite the fact that …

Laser ion acceleration for hadron therapy

SV Bulanov, JJ Wilkens, TZ Esirkepov, G Korn… - Physics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The paper examines the prospects of using laser plasma as a source of high-energy ions for
the purpose of hadron beam therapy—an approach which is based on both theory and …

Power Scaling for Collimated -Ray Beams Generated by Structured Laser-Irradiated Targets and Its Application to Two-Photon Pair Production

T Wang, X Ribeyre, Z Gong, O Jansen, E d'Humières… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Using three-dimensional kinetic simulations, we examine the emission of collimated γ-ray
beams from structured laser-irradiated targets with a prefilled cylindrical channel and its …

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 …

Boosting laser-ion acceleration with multi-picosecond pulses

A Yogo, K Mima, N Iwata, S Tosaki, A Morace… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Using one of the world most powerful laser facility, we demonstrate for the first time that high-
contrast multi-picosecond pulses are advantageous for proton acceleration. By extending …

Efficient quasi-monoenergetic ion beams from laser-driven relativistic plasmas

S Palaniyappan, C Huang, DC Gautier… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Table-top laser–plasma ion accelerators have many exciting applications, many of which
require ion beams with simultaneous narrow energy spread and high conversion efficiency …

Laser wakefield acceleration with mid-IR laser pulses

D Woodbury, L Feder, V Shumakova, C Gollner… - Optics letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We report on, to the best of our knowledge, the first results of laser plasma wakefield
acceleration driven by ultrashort mid-infrared (IR) laser pulses (λ= 3.9 μm, 100 fs, 0.25 TW) …

Laser wakefield acceleration of ions with a transverse flying focus

Z Gong, S Cao, JP Palastro, MR Edwards - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The extreme electric fields created in high-intensity laser-plasma interactions could generate
energetic ions far more compactly than traditional accelerators. Despite this promise, laser …

Laser proton acceleration from a near-critical imploding gas target

O Seemann, Y Wan, S Tata, E Kroupp, V Malka - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The interaction between relativistic intense laser pulses and near-critical-density targets has
been sought after in order to increase the efficiency of laser-plasma energy coupling …