Radiation pressure acceleration of thin foils with circularly polarized laser pulses

A. P. L. Robinson; M. Zepf; S. Kar; R. G. Evans; C. Bellei

doi:10.1088/1367-2630/10/1/013021

Radiation pressure acceleration of thin foils with circularly polarized laser pulses

A. P. L. Robinson, M. Zepf, S. Kar, R. G. Evans, C. Bellei

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A new regime is described for radiation pressure acceleration of a thin foil by an intense laser beam of above 10(20) W cm(-2). Highly monoenergetic proton beams extending to giga-electron-volt energies can be produced with very high efficiency using circularly polarized light. The proton beams have a very small divergence angle (< 4 degrees). This new method allows the construction of ultra-compact proton and ion accelerators with ultra-short particle bursts.

Original language	English
Article number	013021
Number of pages	14
Journal	New Journal of Physics
Volume	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/10/1/013021
Publication status	Published - 21 Jan 2008

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