Radiation pressure acceleration of thin foils with circularly polarized laser pulses

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Record Id	43012
Title	Radiation pressure acceleration of thin foils with circularly polarized laser pulses
Contributors	APL Robinson (STFC), M Zepf (Queen's U., Belfast), S Kar (Queen's U., Belfast), RG Evans (Imperial College London), C Bellei (Imperial College London)
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 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.
Organisation	CLF , CLF-HPL , STFC
Keywords	Physics
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Language	English (EN)

Type	Details	URI(s)	Local file(s)	Year
Journal Article	New J Phys 10 (2008): 013021.	doi:10.1088/1367-2630/10/1/013021	njp-rpa.pdf	2008