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Fast ignition of inertial fusion targets by laser-driven carbon beams
J. J. Honrubia, J. C. Fernandez, M. Temporal +2
Two-dimensional simulations of ion beam driven fast ignition are presented. Ignition energies of protons with Maxwellian spectrum and carbon ions with quasimonoenergetic and Maxwel…
Efficient ion acceleration by collective laser-driven electron dynamics with ultra-thin foil targets
S. Steinke, A. Henig, M. Schnürer +11
Experiments on ion acceleration by irradiation of ultra-thin diamond-like carbon (DLC) foils, with thicknesses well below the skin depth, irradiated with laser pulses of ultra-high…
Collective deceleration: toward a compact beam dump
H. -C. Wu, T. Tajima, D. Habs +2
With the increasing development of laser accelerators, the electron energy is already beyond GeV and even higher in near future. Conventional beam dump based on ionization or radia…
Radiation Pressure Acceleration of Ion Beams Driven by Circularly Polarized Laser Pulses
A. Henig, S. Steinke, M. Schnürer +11
We present experimental studies on ion acceleration from ultra-thin diamond-like carbon (DLC) foils irradiated by ultra-high contrast laser pulses of energy 0.7 J focussed to peak…
Plasma surface dynamics and smoothing in the relativistic few-cycle regime
S. G. Rykovanov, H. Ruhl, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn +4
In laser-plasma interactions it is widely accepted that a non-uniform interaction surface will invariably seed hydrodynamic instabilities and a growth in the amplitude of the initi…
Self-organizing GeV, nano-Coulomb, collimated proton beam from laser foil interaction at 7 * 10^21 W/cm2
X. Q. Yan, H. C. Wu, Z. M. Sheng +2
We report on a self-organizing, quasi-stable regime of laser proton acceleration, producing 1 GeV nano-Coulomb proton bunches from laser foil interaction at an intensity of 7*10^21…