Ultrafast CO2 laser technology: Application in ion acceleration

✍ Scribed by I.V. Pogorelsky; V. Yakimenko; M. Polyanskiy; P. Shkolnikov; M. Ispiryan; D. Neely; P. McKenna; D. Carroll; Z. Najmudin; L. Willingale

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 761 KB
• Volume: 620
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2010.01.062

✦ Synopsis

We review principles of picosecond CO 2 lasers, operating at 10 mm wavelength, and their applications for strong-field physics research. Such laser has been used in a number of BNL experiments that explore advanced methods of particle acceleration and X-ray generation. We illustrate merits of the wavelength scaling from optical to mid-IR region by the examples of ion/proton acceleration and report the first experimental results that confirm the expected wavelength scaling of the process.