Monoenergetic ion beam generation by driving ion solitary waves with circularly polarized laser light.

Autor: Jung D; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA. daniel.jung@physik.uni-muenchen.de, Yin L, Albright BJ, Gautier DC, Hörlein R, Kiefer D, Henig A, Johnson R, Letzring S, Palaniyappan S, Shah R, Shimada T, Yan XQ, Bowers KJ, Tajima T, Fernández JC, Habs D, Hegelich BM
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2011 Sep 09; Vol. 107 (11), pp. 115002. Date of Electronic Publication: 2011 Sep 08.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.115002
Abstrakt: Experimental data from the Trident Laser facility is presented showing quasimonoenergetic carbon ions from nm-scaled foil targets with an energy spread of as low as ±15% at 35 MeV. These results and high-resolution kinetic simulations show laser acceleration of quasimonoenergetic ion beams by the generation of ion solitons with circularly polarized laser pulses (500 fs, λ=1054  nm). The conversion efficiency into monoenergetic ions is increased by an order of magnitude compared with previous experimental results, representing an important step towards applications such as ion fast ignition.
Databáze: MEDLINE