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Towards manipulating relativistic laser pulses with micro-tube plasma lenses
| العنوان: | Towards manipulating relativistic laser pulses with micro-tube plasma lenses |
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| المؤلفون: | Ji, L. L., Snyder, J., Pukhov, A., Freeman, R. R., Akli, K. U. |
| المصدر: | Scientific Reports ; volume 6, issue 1 ; ISSN 2045-2322 |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| الوصف: | Efficient coupling of intense laser pulses to solid-density matter is critical to many applications including ion acceleration for cancer therapy. At relativistic intensities, the focus has been mainly on investigating various laser beams irradiating initially overdense flat interfaces with little or no control over the interaction. Here, we propose a novel approach that leverages recent advancements in 3D direct laser writing (DLW) of materials and high contrast lasers to manipulate the laser-matter interactions on the micro-scales. We demonstrate, via simulations, that usable intensities ≥10 23 Wcm −2 could be achieved with current tabletop lasers coupled to micro-engineered plasma lenses. We show that these plasma optical elements act as a lens to focus laser light. These results open new paths to engineering light-matter interactions at ultra-relativistic intensities. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1038/srep23256 |
| الاتاحة: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep23256 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep23256 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep23256.pdf |
| Rights: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.98DFEB |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1038/srep23256 |
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