All-optical structuring of laser-driven proton beam profiles

Shaping particle beams generated from laser-plasma accelerators is challenging. Here the authors demonstrate an all-optical method to structure the accelerated proton beam by modulating and imprinting the spatial laser profile onto the proton beam.

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Main Authors: Lieselotte Obst-Huebl, Tim Ziegler, Florian-Emanuel Brack, João Branco, Michael Bussmann, Thomas E. Cowan, Chandra B. Curry, Frederico Fiuza, Marco Garten, Maxence Gauthier, Sebastian Göde, Siegfried H. Glenzer, Axel Huebl, Arie Irman, Jongjin B. Kim, Thomas Kluge, Stephan D. Kraft, Florian Kroll, Josefine Metzkes-Ng, Richard Pausch, Irene Prencipe, Martin Rehwald, Christian Roedel, Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt, Ulrich Schramm, Karl Zeil
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/61c8d96811374e249924a33d062a6fa9
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