Radiation Pressure Acceleration of Thin Foils with Circularly Polarized Laser Pulses
Plasma Physics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
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 GeV energies can be produced with very high efficiency using circularly polarized light. The proton beams have a very small divergence angle (less than 4 degrees). This new method allows the construction of ultra-compact proton and ion accelerators with ultra-short particle bursts.
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@article{arxiv.0708.2040,
title = {Radiation Pressure Acceleration of Thin Foils with Circularly Polarized Laser Pulses},
author = {A. P. L. Robinson and M. Zepf and S. Kar and R. G. Evans and C. Bellei},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.2040},
year = {2009}
}