TY - JOUR

T1 - Pic simulations of femtosecond interactions with mass-limited targets

AU - Pšikal, J.

AU - Limpouch, J.

AU - Kawata, S.

AU - Andreev, A. A.

N1 - Funding Information: Partial support of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic in frame of projects LC528 and MSM 6840770022 is gratefully acknowledged.

PY - 2006/10

Y1 - 2006/10

N2 - Laser interactions with mass-limited targets are studied here via 2D3V relativistic electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. We also describe our newly developed code that uses novel efficient algorithms. Damping regions have been implemented in order to eliminate spurious reflection of outgoing electromagnetic waves from boundaries of the simulation box. Mass-limited targets limit undesirable spread of absorbed laser energy out of the interaction zone. Mass-limited target, such as droplets, are shown to enhance the achievable fast ion energy significantly.

AB - Laser interactions with mass-limited targets are studied here via 2D3V relativistic electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. We also describe our newly developed code that uses novel efficient algorithms. Damping regions have been implemented in order to eliminate spurious reflection of outgoing electromagnetic waves from boundaries of the simulation box. Mass-limited targets limit undesirable spread of absorbed laser energy out of the interaction zone. Mass-limited target, such as droplets, are shown to enhance the achievable fast ion energy significantly.

KW - 2D PIC code

KW - Electron and ion acceleration

KW - Relativistic laser intensities

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U2 - 10.1007/s10582-006-0246-8

DO - 10.1007/s10582-006-0246-8

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:33750740430

VL - 56

SP - B515-B521

JO - Czechoslovak Journal of Physics

JF - Czechoslovak Journal of Physics

SN - 0011-4626

IS - SUPPL. 2

ER -