Dominance of Radiation Pressure in Ion Acceleration with Linearly Polarized Pulses at Intensities of $10^{21}\text{W}{\text{cm}}^{-2}$

B. Qiao, S. Kar, M. Geissler +3

A novel regime is proposed where, employing linearly polarized laser pulses at intensities $10^{21}{\text{Wcm}}^{-2}$ as two order of magnitude lower than earlier predicted [T. Esi…