TY  - JOUR
AU  - Aurand, B.
AU  - Kuschel, S.
AU  - Jäckel, O.
AU  - Rödel, C.
AU  - Zhao, H. Y.
AU  - Herzer, S.
AU  - Paz, A. E.
AU  - Bierbach, J.
AU  - Polz, J.
AU  - Elkin, B.
AU  - Karmakar, A.
AU  - Gibbon, P.
AU  - Kaluza, M. C.
AU  - Kuehl, T.
TI  - Enhanced radiation pressure-assisted acceleration by temporally tuned counter-propagating pulses
JO  - Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research / A
VL  - 740
SN  - 0168-9002
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - North-Holland Publ. Co.
M1  - FZJ-2014-01413
SP  - 83 - 86
PY  - 2014
AB  - 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.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000331831100017
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2013.11.010
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/151472
ER  -