Production of ultrahigh-current-density ion beams by short-pulse skin-layer laser-plasma interaction

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Badziak, J [1 ]
Glowacz, S
Jablonski, S
Parys, P
Wolowski, J
Hora, H
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[1] Inst Plasma Phys & Laser Microfus, PL-00908 Warsaw, Poland
[2] Univ New S Wales, Dept Theoret Phys, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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10.1063/1.1797557
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O59 [应用物理学];
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We report experimental evidence, supported by a simple theory and numerical calculations, that the skin-layer subrelativistic interaction of a short (less than or equal to1 ps) low-energy (<1 J) laser pulse with a thin preplasma layer in front of a solid target can produce a collimated fast ion flux of extremely high ion current density (≥10(10) A/cm(2) close to the target), comparable to those predicted for ballistically focused ion beams from relativistic laser-plasma interactions. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.
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