Description |
1 online resource (xii, 84 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Springer theses |
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Springer theses.
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Contents |
Introduction -- Ion acceleration I: Efficient heavy ion acceleration by ESA.-Ion acceleration II: The critical target thickness in light sail acceleration -- Extreme light field generation I: Quasi-single-cycle relativistic laser pulse -- Extreme light field generation II: Short-wavelength single-cycle ultra-intense laser pulse -- Extreme light field generation III: Ultra-intense isolated attosecond pulse -- Summary |
Summary |
This book is dedicated to the relativistic (laser intensity above 1018 W/cm2) laser-plasma interactions, which mainly concerns two important aspects: ion acceleration and extreme-light-field (ELF). Based on the ultra-intense and ultra-short CP lasers, this book proposes a new method that significantly improves the efficiency of heavy-ion acceleration, and deals with the critical thickness issues of light pressure acceleration. More importantly, a series of plasma approaches for producing ELFs, such as the relativistic single-cycle laser pulse, the intense broad-spectrum chirped laser pulse and the ultra-intense isolated attosecond (10-18s) pulse are introduced. This book illustrates that plasma not only affords a tremendous accelerating gradient for ion acceleration but also serves as a novel medium for ELF generation, and hence has the potential of plasma-based optics, which have a great advantage on the light intensity due to the absence of device damage threshold |
Notes |
"Doctoral thesis accepted by Chinese Academy of Sciences, China." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
English |
Subject |
Particle acceleration.
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Lasers.
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lasers (optical instruments)
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SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
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Physique.
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Astronomie.
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Lasers
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Particle acceleration
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9783642540073 |
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3642540074 |
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3642540066 |
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9783642540066 |
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