Direct High-Power Laser Acceleration of Ions for Medical Applications

2008/04/18 by Yousef I. Salamin, Y. I. Salamin, Z. Harman +3 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Molecular Physics #Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications #Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics #physics.acc-ph #physics.optics

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.100.155004

published as Phys.Rev.Lett.100:155004,2008 · 4 pages, 5 figures

openalex publication_date 2008/04/18 · arxiv created 2008/04/23 · arxiv updated 2010/05/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Theoretical investigations show that linearly and radially polarized multiterawatt and petawatt laser beams, focused to subwavelength waist radii, can directly accelerate protons and carbon nuclei, over micron-size distances, to the energies required for hadron cancer therapy. Ions accelerated by radially polarized lasers have generally a more favorable energy spread than those accelerated by linearly polarized lasers of the same intensity.

Citations

• Highly Efficient Relativistic-Ion Generation in the Laser-Piston Regime

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