Laser-Ion Acceleration

Interactive lecture notes

Lectures

  1. Lecture 1 – What accelerates particles? · Exercise 1
  2. Lecture 2 – EM waves for acceleration · Exercise 2
  3. Lecture 3 – Short pulses and CPA lasers · Exercise 3
  4. Lecture 4 – Ionization in strong laser fields · Exercise 4
  5. Lecture 5 – Ponderomotive force and plasma refractive index · Exercise 5
  6. Lecture 6 – Plasma refractive index, nonlinear optics, and PIC · Exercise 6
  7. Lecture 7 – Collisionless absorption · Exercise 7
  8. Lecture 8 – Target Normal Sheath Acceleration (TNSA) · Exercise 8
  9. Lecture 9 – Front side, hole boring, Light Sail II · Exercise 9
  10. Lecture 10 – Ion spectroscopy in the laboratory · Exercise 10
  11. Lecture 11 – Spread-out Bragg curves and solvated electrons · Exercise 11
  12. Lecture 12 – Chirped-pulse probing and optical phase diagnostics · Exercise 12
  13. Lecture 13 – Proton beam transport and quadrupole optics · Exercise 13 · Focusing companion (quad / solenoid / APL)
  14. Lecture 14 – Ionoacoustics and I-BEAT · Exercise 14
  15. Lecture 15 – Wrap-up