Ion acceleration by superintense laser-plasma interaction

By Andrea Macchi, Marco Borghesi, M. Passoni. 2013

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Ion acceleration driven by superintense laser pulses is attracting an impressive and steadily increasing effort. Motivations can be found in the potential for a number of foreseen applications and in the perspective to investigate novel regimes as far as available laser intensities will be increasing. Experiments have demonstrated in a wide range of laser and target parameters the generation of multi-MeV proton and ion beams with unique properties such as ultrashort duration, high brilliance and low emittance. In this paper we give an overview of the state-of-the art of ion acceleration by laser pulses as well as an outlook on its future development and perspectives. We describe the main features observed in the experiments, the observed scaling with laser and plasma parameters and the main models used both to interpret experimental data and to suggest new research directions.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Mechanics of Materials, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. K. Bergmann
2. Nikolay V. Vitanov
3. Alexander Szameit
4. S. Longhi
5. A. Sainte-Marie
6. Burkard Hillebrands
7. C. Keitel
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In Mechanics of Materials

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2. C. Keitel
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In Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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2. M. Chiaramello
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5. C. Keitel
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7. F. Pérez
8. J. Derouillat

Citations in the corpus

• Smilei : A collaborative, open-source, multi-purpose particle-in-cell code for plasma simulation (2017, background): “UHI laser-plasma interaction has indeed been successfully applied to probing matter under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure, opening the way to various promising applications such as charged-particle (electron and ion) acceleration [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8], ultra-bright light sources of unpre”
• Controlling the velocity of ultrashort light pulses in vacuum through spatio-temporal couplings (2017, background): “For instance, the possibility to generate intense “slow” (v ≪ c) pulses could facilitate laser-driven acceleration of heavy particles, such as ions [40].”
• Roadmap on STIRAP applications (2019, methodology): “Plasma ion acceleration was successfully demonstrated with compact shaped-foil-target systems, foiland-gas targets and via radiation pressure acceleration and microlens beam focusing [189].”