Highly efficient relativistic-ion generation in the laser-piston regime.

By T. Esirkepov, M. Borghesi, S. V. Bulanov, G. Mourou, Toshiki Tajima. Physical Review Letters, 2004

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An intense laser-plasma interaction regime of the generation of high density ultrashort relativistic ion beams is suggested. When the radiation pressure is dominant, the laser energy is transformed efficiently into the energy of fast ions.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Ion acceleration by superintense laser-plasma interaction (2013, background): “For extremely thin (a few nm) targets, the breakthrough of the laser pulse through the foil due to relativistic transparency may stop LS-RPA, but at the same time lead to additional strong heating of electrons.”
Nonlinear collective effects in photon-photon and photon-plasma interactions (2006, background): “These nonlinear effects act as a very promising tool for, e.g. producing intense ion beams (Bulanov et al., 2004; Esirkepov et al., 1999, 2004), which is of importance in laboratory astrophysics (Chen, 2003).”
Laser-driven particle and photon beams and some applications (2010, background): “After publication of the above paper, a number of authors (e.g. Brantov et al 2006, Robinson and Gibbon 2007, Robinson et al 2006) pointed out that the previous theory (Esirkepov et al 2002, 2004) was not sufficient to explain monoenergetic features.”
Single cycle thin film compressor opening the door to Zeptosecond-Exawatt physics (2014, background): “A similar concept called 'relativistic flying mirror' has been demonstrated [13], using a thin sheet of accelerated electrons.”
Radiation pressure acceleration of thin foils with circularly polarized laser pulses (2007, methodology): “[22] at I > 1023Wcm−2 using linear polarisation.”
Scaling of proton acceleration driven by petawatt-laser-plasma interactions (2007, neutral): “above 10 21 W cm −2 and acceleration by radiation pressur”
Radiation reaction effects on radiation pressure acceleration (2010, methodology): “According to [2], RPA dominates the acceleration of ions in the plasma foil when the laser intensity I & 1023 W cm−2.”
GeV laser ion acceleration from ultrathin targets: The laser break-out afterburner (2006, neutral): “Moreover, unlike alternative GeV laser-driven ion acceleration techniques ~Habs et al., 2001; Esirkepov et al., 2004!, these energies are attained with a much lower laser intensity— 1021 W0cm2 as opposed to 1024 W0cm2 and beyond.”