• DocumentCode
    2257995
  • Title

    CO2 laser driven ion acceleration in a gas jet

  • Author

    Tochitsky, S. ; Haberberger, D. ; Gong, C. ; Joshi, C.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A train of multiterawatt, 3 ps CO2 laser pulses is used for proton acceleration in a plasma at the critical density. Maximum energy of ions is strongly affected by a temporal structure of the pulse.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; ion accelerators; ion beams; plasma accelerators; plasma density; plasma jets; plasma light propagation; plasma transport processes; carbon dioxide laser driven ion acceleration; gas jet; maximum ion energy; multiterawatt laser pulse train; plasma critical density; plasma proton acceleration; pulse temporal structure; time 3 ps; Acceleration; Bandwidth; Gas lasers; Laser beams; Particle beams; Protons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951369
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2257995