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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
