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most citedEfficient ion acceleration by collective laser-driven electron dynamics with ultra-thin foil targets

92 citations · 206 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.plasm-ph2022★ 10 cited

Ion acceleration with few cycle relativistic laser pulses from foil targets

Sargis Ter-Avetisyan, Parvin Varmazyar, Prashant K. Singh +20

Ion acceleration resulting from the interaction of 11 fs laser pulses of ~35 mJ energy with ultrahigh contrast (<10^-10), and 10^19 W/cm^2 peak intensity with foil targets made of…

physics.plasm-ph2017★ 1 cited

Ultra-brilliance isolated attosecond gamma-ray light source from nonlinear Compton scattering

Jinqing Yu, Z. Najmudin, Ronghao Hu +3

The explosion in attosecond technology has opened the gate to investigating many unexplored areas which require ultrahigh spatial and temporal resolution. In the area of nuclear ph…

physics.plasm-ph2013★ 28 cited

Ultrasmall divergence of laser-driven ion beams from nanometer thick foils

J. H. Bin, W. J. Ma, K. Allinger +11

We report on experimental studies of divergence of proton beams from nanometer thick diamond-like carbon (DLC) foils irradiated by an intense laser with high contrast. Proton beams…

physics.plasm-ph2011

Laser-driven collimated tens-GeV monoenergetic protons from mass-limited target plus preformed channel

F. L. Zheng, S. Z. Wu, H. C. Wu +5

Proton acceleration by ultra-intense laser pulse irradiating a target with cross-section smaller than the laser spot size and connected to a parabolic density channel is investigat…

physics.plasm-ph2010

Dynamics of Nanometer-Scale Foil Targets Irradiated with Relativistically Intense Laser Pulses

R. Hörlein, S. Steinke, A. Henig +15

In this letter we report on an experimental study of high harmonic radiation generated in nanometer-scale foil targets irradiated under normal incidence. The experiments constitute…

physics.plasm-ph2009★ 92 cited

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…

physics.plasm-ph2009★ 24 cited

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…

physics.plasm-ph2009★ 51 cited

Theory of laser ion acceleration from a foil target of nanometers

X. Q. Yan, T. Tajima, M. Hegelich +2

A theory for laser ion acceleration is presented to evaluate the maximum ion energy in the interaction of ultrahigh contrast (UHC) intense laser with a nanometer-scale foil. In thi…