Monoenergetic proton beams from laser plasmas
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Pfotenhauer, S.; Jackel, O.; Amthor, K.-U.; Schwoerer, H.; Liesfeld, B.; Ziegler, W.; Sauerbrey, R.; Ledingham, K.W.D.; Esirkepov, T.
- Source
- 2006 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on. :1-2 May, 2006
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Protons
Acceleration
Laser theory
Plasmas
Particle beams
Lasers
Laser beams
(270.6620) Strong-field processes
(350.5400) Plasmas
(350.4990) Particles
- Language
- ISSN
- 2160-9004
We report the first production of quasi-monoenergetic proton beams using laser plasmas. Supported by scalability studies, this puts laser plasma acceleration clearly in the scope of medical application.