Thin tape target driver for laser ion accelerator
- 1 July 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments
- Vol. 74 (7), 3293-3296
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1578156
Abstract
A thin tape target driver for laser ion acceleration was developed. The driver can move a copper tape of 5 μm thickness with a positioning reproducibility of less than 30 μm (peak to valley), which is sufficient for a laser irradiation target. Using this tape target and laser pulses of energy 350 mJ and duration 60 fs, protons of energies of over 1 MeV were accelerated in the forward direction.Keywords
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