Generation of picosecond high-density ion fluxes by skin-layer laser-plasma interaction
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Published:2005-06
Issue:2
Volume:23
Page:143-147
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ISSN:0263-0346
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Container-title:Laser and Particle Beams
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Laser Part. Beams
Author:
BADZIAK J.,GŁOWACZ S.,JABŁOŃSKI S.,PARYS P.,WOŁOWSKI J.,HORA H.
Abstract
The possibilities of producing ultrahigh-current-density ps ion fluxes by the skin-layer interaction of a short (≤ 1ps) laser pulse with plasma were studied using two-fluid hydrodynamic simulations, and the time-of-flight measurements. Backward-emitted ion fluxes from a massive (Au) target as well as forward-emitted fluxes from various thin foil targets irradiated by a 1-ps laser pulse of intensity up to 2 × 1017W/cm2were recorded. Both the simulations and the measurements confirmed that using the short-pulse skin-layer interaction of a laser pulse with a thin pre-plasma layer in front of a solid target, a high-density collimated ion flux of extremely high ion current density (∼ 1010A/cm2close to the target), can be generated at laser intensity only ∼ 1017W/cm2. The ion current densities produced by this way were found to be comparable to (or even higher than) those estimated from recent short-pulse experiments using a target normal sheath acceleration mechanism at relativistic laser intensities. The effect of the target structure on the current densities and energies of forward-emitted ions is demonstrated.
Publisher
Hindawi Limited
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Condensed Matter Physics,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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