Production of a MeV proton with 30 mJ laser energy by optimizing the focusing spot using a deformable mirror

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2005, Pages

  Nayuki, Takuya ^a   Fujii, Takashi ^a   Oishi, Yuji ^a   Takano, Kei ^a   Wang, Xiaofang ^a   Andreev, Alexander Alekseevitch ^a   Nemoto, Koshichi ^a   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^b  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGETIC PROTONS; LASER ENERGY; LASER SPOTS; THERMAL LENSES;

DISTORTION (WAVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; ISOTOPES; LASER PULSES; LASERS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTIMIZATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; TENSILE STRENGTH; WAVEFRONTS;

PROTONS;

EID: 22944460427     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1942527     Document Type: Article

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