Nature Communications (Dec 2018)
All-optical structuring of laser-driven proton beam profiles
- Lieselotte Obst-Huebl,
- Tim Ziegler,
- Florian-Emanuel Brack,
- João Branco,
- Michael Bussmann,
- Thomas E. Cowan,
- Chandra B. Curry,
- Frederico Fiuza,
- Marco Garten,
- Maxence Gauthier,
- Sebastian Göde,
- Siegfried H. Glenzer,
- Axel Huebl,
- Arie Irman,
- Jongjin B. Kim,
- Thomas Kluge,
- Stephan D. Kraft,
- Florian Kroll,
- Josefine Metzkes-Ng,
- Richard Pausch,
- Irene Prencipe,
- Martin Rehwald,
- Christian Roedel,
- Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt,
- Ulrich Schramm,
- Karl Zeil
Affiliations
- Lieselotte Obst-Huebl
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics
- Tim Ziegler
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics
- Florian-Emanuel Brack
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics
- João Branco
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics
- Michael Bussmann
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics
- Thomas E. Cowan
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics
- Chandra B. Curry
- High Energy Density Science Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Frederico Fiuza
- High Energy Density Science Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Marco Garten
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics
- Maxence Gauthier
- High Energy Density Science Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Sebastian Göde
- European XFEL GmbH
- Siegfried H. Glenzer
- High Energy Density Science Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Axel Huebl
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics
- Arie Irman
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics
- Jongjin B. Kim
- High Energy Density Science Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Thomas Kluge
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics
- Stephan D. Kraft
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics
- Florian Kroll
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics
- Josefine Metzkes-Ng
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics
- Richard Pausch
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics
- Irene Prencipe
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics
- Martin Rehwald
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics
- Christian Roedel
- Helmholtz Institute Jena
- Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics
- Ulrich Schramm
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics
- Karl Zeil
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07756-z
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 7
Abstract
Shaping particle beams generated from laser-plasma accelerators is challenging. Here the authors demonstrate an all-optical method to structure the accelerated proton beam by modulating and imprinting the spatial laser profile onto the proton beam.