Controlling laser driven protons acceleration using a deformable mirror at a high repetition rate

Noaman-ul-Haq, M.; Sokollik, T.; Ahmed, H.; Braenzel, J.; Ehrentraut, L.; Mirzaie, M.; Yu, L.-L.; Sheng, Z.M.; Chen, L.M.; Schnürer, M.

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2017.11.075

Controlling laser driven protons acceleration using a deformable mirror at a high repetition rate

Mar 1, 2018

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Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A 883 (2018) 191-195

Published: Mar 1, 2018

DOI:

10.1016/j.nima.2017.11.075

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We present results from a proof-of-principle experiment to optimize laser driven protons acceleration by directly feeding back its spectral information to a deformable mirror (DM) controlled by evolutionary algorithms (EAs). By irradiating a stable high-repetition rate tape driven target with ultra-intense pulses of intensities ∼ 10 20 W/ cm2 , we optimize the maximum energy of the accelerated protons with a stability of less than ∼ 5% fluctuations near optimum value. Moreover, due to spatio-temporal development of the sheath field, modulations in the spectrum are also observed. Particularly, a prominent narrow peak is observed with a spread of ∼ 15% (FWHM) at low energy part of the spectrum. These results are helpful to develop high repetition rate optimization techniques required for laser-driven ion accelerators.

Laser driven protons
TNSA
Deformable mirror
Evolutionary algorithm
High rep. rate

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