Laser-plasma acceleration of quasi-monoenergetic protons from microstructured targets

By Heinrich Schwoerer, S. Pfotenhauer, O. Jäckel, K. Amthor, B. Liesfeld, W. Ziegler, R. Sauerbrey, T. Esirkepov. Nature, 2006

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Laser-driven particle and photon beams and some applications (2010, methodology): “Other groups have used PIC simulations to predict, e.g. energies up to 380 MeV at a peak laser intensity of 2 × 1021 W cm−2 (Malka et al 2004) and 173 MeV at 1.2 × 1021 W cm−2 (Schwoerer et al 2006).”
Extremely high-intensity laser interactions with fundamental quantum systems (2011, background): “In the first experiment with an all-optical setup (Schwoerer et al., 2006), x-ray photons in the range of 0.4 keV to 2 keV have been generated.”
A compact synchrotron radiation source driven by a laser-plasma wakefield accelerator (2008, background): “However, there we are not restricted to laser pulses, and these may be converted to another form, for example, to an electron pulse or proton puls”
Ion acceleration by superintense laser-plasma interaction (2013, methodology): “Spectral peaks have been observed in experiments employing high-Z metallic targets where a plastic layer [0:5 m polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA)] was coated as a dot on the rear surface of a 5 m Ti foil (Schwoerer et al., 2006; Pfotenhauer et al., 2008).”