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TY - JOUR
T1 - Ion Acceleration Using Relativistic Pulse Shaping in Near-Critical-Density Plasmas
AU - Bin, J. H.
AU - Ma, W. J.
AU - Wang, H. Y.
AU - Streeter, M. J. V.
AU - Kreuzer, C.
AU - Kiefer, D.
AU - Yeung, M.
AU - Cousens, S.
AU - Foster, P. S.
AU - Dromey, B.
AU - Yan, X. Q.
AU - Ramis, R.
AU - Meyer-ter-Vehn, J.
AU - Zepf, M.
AU - Schreiber, J.
PY - 2015/8/7
Y1 - 2015/8/7
N2 - Ultraintense laser pulses with a few-cycle rising edge are ideally suited to accelerating ions from ultrathin foils, and achieving such pulses in practice represents a formidable challenge.We show that such pulses can be obtained using sufficiently strong and well-controlled relativistic nonlinearities in spatially well-defined near-critical-density plasmas. The resulting ultraintense pulses with an extremely steep rising edge give rise to significantly enhanced carbon ion energies consistent with a transition to radiation pressure acceleration.
AB - Ultraintense laser pulses with a few-cycle rising edge are ideally suited to accelerating ions from ultrathin foils, and achieving such pulses in practice represents a formidable challenge.We show that such pulses can be obtained using sufficiently strong and well-controlled relativistic nonlinearities in spatially well-defined near-critical-density plasmas. The resulting ultraintense pulses with an extremely steep rising edge give rise to significantly enhanced carbon ion energies consistent with a transition to radiation pressure acceleration.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.064801
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.064801
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 26296119
VL - 115
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
SN - 1079-7114
IS - 6
M1 - 064801
ER -