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- Busch, S., et al.
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Ion acceleration with ultrafast lasers
- 2003
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Ingår i: Applied Physics Letters. - : AIP Publishing. - 0003-6951 .- 1077-3118. ; 82:19, s. 3354-3356
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Hot-electron confinement can build up fields capable of accelerating ions up to MeV energies when an ultrashort 35-fs laser pulse at similar to2x10(18) W/cm(2) interacts with a small spherical target. Singly charged ions with different masses have similar energies. A simple phenomenological model describes how ultrashort and less-energy-consumptive pulses drive ions to MeV energies. The energetic and spatial-emission characteristics of protons, deuterons and oxygen ions released from water and heavy-water droplets of similar to15 mum in size was determined for this interaction scenario.
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- Schnurer, M., et al.
(författare)
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Influence of laser pulse width on absolute EUV-yield from Xe-clusters
- 2001
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Ingår i: European Physical Journal D. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1434-6060 .- 1434-6079. ; 14:3, s. 331-335
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using 50 fs (similar to 2 x 10(18) W/cm(2)) and 2 ps (similar to 5 x 10(16) W/cm(2)) pulses from a Ti:Sa multi-TW laser at 800 nm wavelength large Xe-clusters (10(5)...10(6) atoms per cluster) have been excited. Absolute yield measurements of EUV-emission in a wavelength range between 10 nm and 15 nm in combination with cluster target variation were carried out. The ps-laser pulse has resulted in about 30% enhanced and spatially more uniform EUV-emission compared to fs-laser excitation. Circularly polarized laser light instead of linear polarization results in enhanced emission which is probably caused by electrons gaining higher energies by the polarization dependent optical field ionization process. An absolute emission efficiency at 13.4 nm of up to 0.8% in 2 pi sr and 2.2% bandwidth has been obtained.
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- Ter-Avetisyan, S., et al.
(författare)
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Absolute extreme ultraviolet yield from femtosecond-laser-excited Xe clusters
- 2001
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Ingår i: Physical Review E. Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. - 1063-651X .- 1095-3787. ; 6403:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Large Xe clusters (10(5)-10(6) atoms per cluster) have been irradiated with ultrashort (50 fs) and high-intensity (similar to2 x 10(18) W/cm(2)) pulses from a Ti:sapphire multi-TW laser at 800 nm wavelength. Scaling and absolute yield measurements of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) emission in a wavelength range between 7 and 15 nm in combination with cluster target characterization have been used for yield optimization. Maximum emission as a function of the backing pressure and a spatial emission anisotropy covering a factor of two at optimized yields is discussed with a simple model of the source geometry and EUV-radiation absorption. Circularly polarized laser light instead of linear polarization results in a factor of 2.5 higher emission in the 11 to 15 nm wavelength range. This indicates the initial influence of optical-field ionization for the interaction parameter range used and contrasts to collisional heating that seems to influence preferentially higher ionization. Absolute emission efficiency at 13.4 nm of up to 0.5% in 2 pi sr and 2.2% bandwidth has been obtained.
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- Ter-Avetisyan, S., et al.
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Efficient extreme ultraviolet emission from xenon-cluster jet targets at high repetition rate laser illumination
- 2003
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Ingår i: Journal of Applied Physics. - : AIP Publishing. - 0021-8979 .- 1089-7550. ; 94:9, s. 5489-5496
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We studied extreme ultraviolet (EUV) emission from Xe cluster jet targets irradiated with high repetitive ps and ns laser pulses in the intensity range between 10(11) and 10(15) W/cm(2). It was found that at fixed intensity the conversion efficiency of the laser energy into the EUV emission is higher for ns pulses. In the intensity range used no saturation of the 13.4 nm signal could be reached. At ns pulse duration a conversion efficiency 0.26%@13.4 nm in 2pi steradian and 2.2% bandwidth was reached. The laser energy deposition is discussed in relation to the plasma dynamics of the cluster target. We demonstrated that due to the high flow velocity of the cluster jet target an exposition with laser pulses up to 125 kHz repetition rate is possible without any degradation of the EUV emission efficiency. Both the high conversion efficiency and the high repetition rate make this Xe target attractive for an EUV source with high average EUV power.
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