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Ultraintense ion beams driven by a short-wavelength short-pulse laser

Source: Phys. Plasmas 17, 073106 (2010); doi:10.1063/1.3458900

Published 22 July 2010

KEYWORDS and PACS
Keywords
PACS
  • 52.59.-f
    Intense particle beams and radiation sources in plasmas
  • 52.50.Jm
    Plasma production and heating by laser beams
  • 52.65.-y
    Plasma simulation
  • YEAR: 2010
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J. Badziak and S. Jablonski
Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Euratom Association, 01-497 Warsaw, Poland
The results of particle-in-cell simulations are reported which demonstrate that a short-wavelength (lambda<=0.5  µm) short-pulse laser driver can produce much more intense ion beams than the commonly used long-wavelength (lambda~1  µm) ones. In particular, such a driver allows for efficient generation of ultrashort (<=100  fs), multi-MeV proton bunches of extremely high intensities (>1021  W/cm2) and current densities (>1014  A/cm2) even at moderate values of dimensionless laser amplitude a0<=10. ©2010 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 11 February 2010; accepted 10 June 2010; published 22 July 2010
Permalink: http://link.aip.org/link/?PHPAEN/17/073106/1

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