The different acceleration mechanisms of ion acceleration from a foil irradiated by a short-pulse laser are briefly discussed, i.e., the backward and forward ion acceleration from the front side, the forward ion acceleration from the rear side, and the shock acceleration inside the target itself...
Laser Driven Ion accelerators—current status and perspective.doi:10.1063/1.3080908The interaction of ultra-intense lasers with thin foil targets has recently emerged as a route to achieving extreme acceleration gradients and hence ultra-compact proton and ion accelerators. There are a number of ...
Starting from twenty years ago, laser-driven ion acceleration has been the object of tireless efforts of theoretical understanding and experimental optimisation, stimulated by the remarkable beam properties (in terms of duration, brightness, emittance) that promote the use of such sources in different ...
www.nature.com/scientificreports OPEN Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration from Plasma Micro-Channel Targets received: 03 October 2016 accepted: 13 January 2017 Published: 20 February 2017 D. B. Zou1,2, A. Pukhov2, L. Q. Yi2, H. B. Zhuo1,3, T. P. Yu1,Y. Yin1 ...
Laser-driven Electron Accelerator On a Chip by: Peyman Yousefi, Chair for Laserphysics,Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Photonics-based laser accelerators are enticing candidates for future particle accelerators. They could reduce the size of current large radio-frequency ...
● Laser driven electron and ion acceleration ● Extreme nonlinearity and relativistic optics ● QED effects of high-intensity laser Topic 2: High power laser systems ● Laser facility engineering ● Laser system design, modeling and optimization ...
Laser driven ion acceleration (LDIA) has the potential to deliver compact and affordable accelerators for applications in many fields of science and medicine. Specifically, radiotherapy of cancerous tumors requires ion energies in the range of 200-300 MeV/a.m.u. and with energy spreads on the ...
Physical model optimisation has frequently been complemented by experimental design in scientific research. However, it can be time consuming to perform re
Laser-driven ion sources are interesting for many potential applications, from nuclear medicine to material science. A promising strategy to enhance both ion energy and number is given by Double-Layer Targets (DLTs), i.e. micrometric foils coated by a ne
An international team of physicists has used carbon nanotubes to enhance the efficiency of laser-driven particle acceleration. This significant advance brings compact sources of ionizing radiation for medical purposes closer to reality.