%0 Journal Article
%A Aurand, B.
%A Kuschel, S.
%A Jäckel, O.
%A Rödel, C.
%A Zhao, H. Y.
%A Herzer, S.
%A Paz, A. E.
%A Bierbach, J.
%A Polz, J.
%A Elkin, B.
%A Karmakar, A.
%A Gibbon, P.
%A Kaluza, M. C.
%A Kuehl, T.
%T Enhanced radiation pressure-assisted acceleration by temporally tuned counter-propagating pulses
%J Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research / A
%V 740
%@ 0168-9002
%C Amsterdam
%I North-Holland Publ. Co.
%M FZJ-2014-01413
%P 83 - 86
%D 2014
%X Within the last decade, laser-ion acceleration has become a field of broad interest. The possibility to generate short proton- or heavy ion bunches with an energy of a few tens of MeV by table-top laser systems could open new opportunities for medical or technical applications. Nevertheless, today's laser-acceleration schemes lead mainly to a temperature-like energy distribution of the accelerated ions, a big disadvantage compared to mono-energetic beams from conventional accelerators. Recent results [1] of laser-ion acceleration using radiation-pressure appear promising to overcome this drawback. In this paper, we demonstrate the influence of a second counter-propagating laser pulse interacting with a nm-thick target, creating a well defined pre-plasma.
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000331831100017
%R 10.1016/j.nima.2013.11.010
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/151472