Ion cascade acceleration from the interaction of a relativistic femtosecond laser pulse with a narrow thin target

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  He, Feng ^a,b   Xu, Han ^b,c   Tian, Youwei ^b   Yu, Wei ^b   Lu, Peixiang ^d   Li, Ruxin ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRONS; ION SOURCES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMA SIMULATION;

ION CASCADE ACCELERATION; LASER BEAM WAIST; NARROW THIN TARGET; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 33746861051     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2219430     Document Type: Article

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