Radiation Pressure Acceleration of Thin Foils with Circularly Polarized Laser Pulses

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2007-08-15

arxiv.org/abs/0708.2040v1

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Plasma Physics

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10.1088/1367-2630/10/1/013021

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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