Enhanced proton beams from ultrathin targets driven by high contrast laser pulses

By D. Neely, P. Foster, A. Robinson, F. Lindau, O. Lundh, A. Persson, C. Wahlström, P. McKenna. 2006

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The scaling of proton energies in ultrashort pulse laser plasma acceleration (2010, background): “These findings can be explained by a scheme first discussed by the group at the Lund laser facility in 2005 [13, 33].”
Ion acceleration by superintense laser-plasma interaction (2013, methodology): “These ideas have been successfully tested by Neely et al. (2006), using Al target with thicknesses as low as 20 nm in combination with 33 fs pulses with ASE intensity contrast reaching 1010.”
Principles and applications of compact laser–plasma accelerators (2008, background): “Improved acceleration with such targets has been reported recentl”
Laser-driven particle and photon beams and some applications (2010, methodology): “Using the Lund laser system, maximum proton energies increased from about 1.5 MeV to almost 4 MeV as the aluminium targets were reduced in thickness from 10 to 0.1 µm (Neely et al 2006).”
Review of laser-driven ion sources and their applications (2012, methodology): “On the other hand, the data obtained with high contrast, small energy (<a few J), short pulse (<100 fs) lasers show conversion efficiencies >1% (Neely et al (2006), 1% into 0.9–4 MeV protons; Henig et al (2009b), 2.5% into 20–40 MeV carbon ions).”