• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Enhanced laser–plasma interactions using non-imaging optical concentrator targets
  • Contributor: MacPhee, Andrew G.; Alessi, David; Chen, Hui; Cochran, Ginevra; Hermann, Mark R.; Kalantar, Daniel H.; Kemp, Andreas J.; Kerr, Shaun M.; Link, Anthony J.; Ma, Tammy; Mackinnon, Andrew J.; Mariscal, Derek A.; Schlossberg, David; Tommasini, Riccardo; Vonhof, Scott; Widmayer, Clifford C.; Wilks, Scott C.; Jackson Williams, G.; Williams, Wade H.; Youngblood, Kelly
  • imprint: Optica Publishing Group, 2020
  • Published in: Optica
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1364/optica.375486
  • ISSN: 2334-2536
  • Keywords: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ; Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
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  • Description: <jats:p>Picosecond-scale laser–matter interactions using compound parabolic concentrators have demonstrated strongly relativistic ponderomotive effects with <jats:inline-formula> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mo>∼<!-- ∼ --></mml:mo> <mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mml:mn>10</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:mo>×<!-- × --></mml:mo> </mml:math> </jats:inline-formula> increase in x-ray source brightness, positron production and multi-MeV proton acceleration versus flat targets, using a marginally relativistic intensity laser.</jats:p>
  • Access State: Open Access