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- Title
Generation of picosecond high-density ion fluxes by skin-layer laser-plasma interaction.
- Authors
J. BADZIAK; S. GŁOWACZ; S. JABŁOŃSKI; P. PARYS; J. WOŁOWSKI; H. HORA
- Abstract
The possibilities of producing ultrahigh-current-density ps ion fluxes by the skin-layer interaction of a short (≤ 1ps) laser pulse with plasma were studied using two-fluid hydrodynamic simulations, and the time-of-flight measurements. Backward-emitted ion fluxes from a massive (Au) target as well as forward-emitted fluxes from various thin foil targets irradiated by a 1-ps laser pulse of intensity up to 2 × 1017 W/cm2 were recorded. Both the simulations and the measurements confirmed that using the short-pulse skin-layer interaction of a laser pulse with a thin pre-plasma layer in front of a solid target, a high-density collimated ion flux of extremely high ion current density (∼ 1010 A/cm2 close to the target), can be generated at laser intensity only ∼ 1017 W/cm2. The ion current densities produced by this way were found to be comparable to (or even higher than) those estimated from recent short-pulse experiments using a target normal sheath acceleration mechanism at relativistic laser intensities. The effect of the target structure on the current densities and energies of forward-emitted ions is demonstrated.
- Publication
Laser & Particle Beams, 2005, Vol 23, Issue 2, p143
- ISSN
0263-0346
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/s0263034605050238