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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07756-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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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.