"Light Sail" Acceleration Revisited

Details "Light Sail" Acceleration Revisited "Light Sail" Acceleration Revisited

2009-05-13

arxiv.org/abs/0905.2068v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 085003 (2009)

Physics

Plasma Physics

4 pages, 3 figures. Second version modified and improved

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.085003

The dynamics of the acceleration of ultrathin foil targets by the radiation pressure of superintense, circularly polarized laser pulses is investigated by analytical modeling and particle-in-cell simulations. By addressing self-induced transparency and charge separation effects, it is shown that for "optimal" values of the foil thickness only a thin layer at the rear side is accelerated by radiation pressure. The simple "Light Sail" model gives a good estimate of the energy per nucleon, but overestimates the conversion efficiency of laser energy into monoenergetic ions.

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