激光尾场第一周期加速带电粒子模拟

在关于激光尾场加速(LWFA)的很多文献中,都暗示了尾场有周期性结构.可是激光驱动尾场可以不是周期性的,尾场第一周期可以捕获和加速外来电子束.Esirkepov和Bulanov等人提出了带电粒子在激光高斯脉冲驱动尾场第一周期加速的处理方法.本文在此理论基础上进一步讨论电子在尾场第一周期中能获得的最大能量与激光脉冲的强度和脉冲的波长之间的关系.结果显示,捕获电子最大能量与脉冲激光强度成正比.适当的选择脉冲激光波长也直接影响到捕获电子的最大能量值.     

激光等离子体相互作用中的两级质子加速（英文）北大核心CSCD

研究了激光辐射压驱动的两级质子加速的相关问题。当超短超强激光脉冲与处在背景等离子体前方的薄固体平靶相互作用时,在固体靶后部形成一个电子层-离子层组成的双层结构。在激光的不断推进下,双层结构在背景等离子体里以一定速度传播,可以看成运动在背景等离子体中的电场。这样,在背景等离子体中的质子被这个运动电场捕获并能加速到很高的能量。通过二维PIC模拟方法和理论分析研究了质子加速的相关问题。研究结果表明,被加速质子的最大能量达到20GeV。     

Suppression of multiple ion bunches and generation of monoenergetic ion beams in laser foil-plasma

In one-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations, this paper shows that the formation of multiple ion bunches is disadvantageous to the generation of monoenergetic ion beams and can be suppressed by choosing an optimum target thickness in the radiation pressure acceleration mechanism by a circularly polarised laser pulse. As the laser pulse becomes intense, the optimum target thickness obtained by a non-relativistic treatment is no longer adequate. Considering the relativistic Doppler-shifted pressure, it proposes a relativistic formulation to determine the optimum target thickness. The theoretical predictions agree with the simulation results well. The model is also valid for two-dimensional cases. The accelerated ion beams can be compelled to be more stable by choosing the optimum target thickness when they exhibit some unstable behaviours.