Generation of over 5 MeV carbon ions from a fibrous polytetrafluoroethylene film irradiated with a 2.4 TW, 50 fs tabletop laser

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Okihara, Shin Ichiro ^a,b   Fujimoto, Masatoshi ^a,c   Takahashi, Hironori ^a,c   Matsukado, Koji ^a,c   Ohsuka, Shinji ^a,c   Aoshima, Shin Ichiro ^a,c   Okazaki, Shigetoshi ^c   Ito, Toshiaki ^c   Tsuchiya, Yutaka ^a,b,c  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE SCHOOL FOR THE CREATION OF NEW PHOTONICS INDUSTRIES   (Japan)

^c CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FLUORINE; LASER PULSES; MICROPOROUS MATERIALS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES;

CARBON IONS; FIBROUS POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; MICROPOROUS STRUCTURE;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 33748967737     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2356084     Document Type: Article

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