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17 August 2023 Parameters affecting the plasma block acceleration driven by a linearly polarized laser pulse
Peng Xu, Yanxia Xu, Yifeng Pan, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Ying Wang, Cailian Yang, Jie Guo, Qinghong Zhou, Tao Liu
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Proceedings Volume 12757, 3rd International Conference on Laser, Optics, and Optoelectronic Technology (LOPET 2023); 1275720 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2690219
Event: 3rd International Conference on Laser, Optics and Optoelectronic Technology (LOPET 2023), 2023, Kunming, China
Abstract
The factors affecting the acceleration process of interaction between double plasma targets and the ultraintense linearly polarized laser pulse has been studied in this work. The results show that extra electrons provided by the pre-target play important roles in enhancing the longitudinal bipolar field and better confining of the protons from the main-target. Besides, there exists great difference between s- and p-polarizations of the laser pulse for distinguished transverse effects. By contrast to the case of circularly polarized laser pulse, higher areal density ratio of pre-target to main-target is needed to achieve efficient plasma block acceleration driven by the linearly polarized one. Finally, monoenergetic proton beam has been obtained via double targets driven by a linearly polarized laser pulse, which has better collimation, monochromaticity and stability, as well as higher energy conversion efficiency.
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Peng Xu, Yanxia Xu, Yifeng Pan, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Ying Wang, Cailian Yang, Jie Guo, Qinghong Zhou, and Tao Liu "Parameters affecting the plasma block acceleration driven by a linearly polarized laser pulse", Proc. SPIE 12757, 3rd International Conference on Laser, Optics, and Optoelectronic Technology (LOPET 2023), 1275720 (17 August 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2690219
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KEYWORDS
Pulsed laser operation

Plasma

Electrons

Ions

Laser energy

Energy conversion efficiency

Simulations

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