Ion acceleration by superintense laser-plasma interaction

A Macchi, M Borghesi, M Passoni - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2013 - APS
Ion acceleration driven by superintense laser pulses is attracting an impressive and steadily
increasing effort. Motivations can be found in the applicative potential and in the perspective …

Review of laser-driven ion sources and their applications

H Daido, M Nishiuchi… - Reports on progress in …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
For many years, laser-driven ion acceleration, mainly proton acceleration, has been
proposed and a number of proof-of-principle experiments have been carried out with lasers …

Absorption of ultra-intense laser pulses

SC Wilks, WL Kruer, M Tabak, AB Langdon - Physical review letters, 1992 - APS
We use simulations to investigate the interaction of ultra-intense laser pulses with a plasma.
With an intensity greater than 10 18 W/cm 2, these pulses have a pressure greater than 10 3 …

[图书][B] Short pulse laser interactions with matter: an introduction

P Gibbon - 2005 - books.google.com
This book represents the first comprehensive treatment of the subject, covering the
theoretical principles, present experimental status and important applications of short-pulse …

[图书][B] Introduction to high-energy-density physics

RP Drake, RP Drake - 2006 - Springer
This book concerns itself with the physics of systems having high-energydensity. By high-
energy-density systems, we refer to those having a pressure above one million …

Terawatt to petawatt subpicosecond lasers

MD Perry, G Mourou - Science, 1994 - science.org
The application of the chirped-pulse amplification technique to solid-state lasers combined
with the availability of broad-bandwidth materials has made possible the development of …

A study of picosecond laser–solid interactions up to 1019 W cm−2

FN Beg, AR Bell, AE Dangor, CN Danson… - Physics of …, 1997 - pubs.aip.org
The interaction of a 1053 nm picosecond laser pulse with a solid target has been studied for
focused intensities of up to 1019 W cm− 2. The maximum ion energy cutoff E max (which is …

Short‐pulse laser harmonics from oscillating plasma surfaces driven at relativistic intensity

R Lichters, J Meyer‐ter‐Vehn, A Pukhov - Physics of Plasmas, 1996 - pubs.aip.org
The generation of harmonics by interaction of an ultrashort laser pulse with a step boundary
of a plane overdense plasma layer is studied at intensities I λ2= 1017–1019 W cm− 2 μm2 …

Interaction of an ultrashort, relativistically strong laser pulse with an overdense plasma

SV Bulanov, NM Naumova, F Pegoraro - Physics of Plasmas, 1994 - pubs.aip.org
The results of an analytical description and of a particle‐in‐cell simulation of the interaction
of an ultrashort, relativistically intense laser pulse, obliquely incident on a nonuniform …

High-order harmonics from laser-irradiated plasma surfaces

U Teubner, P Gibbon - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2009 - APS
The investigation of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) of femtosecond laser pulses by
means of laser-produced plasmas is surveyed. This kind of harmonic generation is an …