Light: Science & Applications (Mar 2023)

Enhanced ion acceleration from transparency-driven foils demonstrated at two ultraintense laser facilities

  • Nicholas P. Dover,
  • Tim Ziegler,
  • Stefan Assenbaum,
  • Constantin Bernert,
  • Stefan Bock,
  • Florian-Emanuel Brack,
  • Thomas E. Cowan,
  • Emma J. Ditter,
  • Marco Garten,
  • Lennart Gaus,
  • Ilja Goethel,
  • George S. Hicks,
  • Hiromitsu Kiriyama,
  • Thomas Kluge,
  • James K. Koga,
  • Akira Kon,
  • Kotaro Kondo,
  • Stephan Kraft,
  • Florian Kroll,
  • Hazel F. Lowe,
  • Josefine Metzkes-Ng,
  • Tatsuhiko Miyatake,
  • Zulfikar Najmudin,
  • Thomas Püschel,
  • Martin Rehwald,
  • Marvin Reimold,
  • Hironao Sakaki,
  • Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt,
  • Keiichiro Shiokawa,
  • Marvin E. P. Umlandt,
  • Ulrich Schramm,
  • Karl Zeil,
  • Mamiko Nishiuchi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-023-01083-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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High energy ions were accelerated by extreme space charge fields induced during relativistic transparency and optimised by tuning the target thickness to the individual laser parameters