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Experimental studies of emission of highly charged Au-ions and of X-rays from the laser-produced plasma at high laser intensities
Au ions with maximum charge states 58+ and with the kinetic energy in a region of ∼100 MeV were recorded. The influence of various experimental conditions is presented and discussed.
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Fe and Fe+2%Si targets as ion sources via UV laser ablation plasma
In the last years the ion component of a laser-produced plasma has been considered and studied as an object to provide high-density ion sources, which can be applied in many fields such as laser-induced implan...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Ablation of Organic Molecular Solids by Focused Soft X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Radiation
The first soft X-ray free-electron laser has recently been put into operation at DESY in Hamburg. Tunable soft X-ray coherent radiation can be generated at the FLASH (Free-electron LASer in Hamburg; formerly k...
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Experimental studies of interaction of intense long laser pulse with a laser-created Ta plasma
Characteristics of ions, emitted from the laser produced plasma, were systematically investigated using high power iodine laser system PALS, operating at 3ω. A Ta target was irradiated perpendicularly with laser ...
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Studies of the laser-created craters produced on solid surfaces at various experimental conditions
Results on target ablation and crater formation at low and high laser intensities (at 5 × 109 W/cm2 with Nd:YAG laser in Catania and 3 × 1016 W/cm2 with iodine laser PALS in Prague) are compared. Attention is pai...
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Search for low-energy nuclear transitions in laser-produced plasma
The possibility to excite low-energy nuclear states using laser induced plasma on the Prague Asterix Laser System PALS is investigated. This medium-energy high-power facility yields interaction intensities at ...
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Study of X-ray and neutron emission in experiments with Al wires in an MA plasma focus
Results are presented from experimental studies of the correlation between X-ray and neutron emissions generated in the implosion of a deuteron plasma shell onto an Al wire. The experiments were carried out on...
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Generation of extreme high laser intensities in plasma
Studies of nonlinear processes of self-focusing of a laser beam in a plasma were performed using the PALS TW iodine laser system. The leading part of the 400 ps PALS laser pulse generated a plasma with which t...
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The influence of pre-pulse plasma on ion and x-ray emission from Ta plasma produced by a high-energy laser pulse
The paper describes studies of ion and x-ray emissions from plasma produced by the PALS laser system at different parameters of pre-plasma generated by a laser pre-pulse. The plasma was produced by 0.4-ns lase...
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Pulsed laser ablation of gold at 1064 nm and 532 nm
A Nd:Yag laser, 9 ns pulse duration and 900 mJ maximum pulse energy, operating at the 1 064 nm fundamental wavelength and 532 nm second harmonic, is employed to irradiate Au targets placed in vacuum by using s...
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Innovative ion sources for accelerators: the benefits of the plasma technology
The most important developments in the field of ion sources at INFN-LNS, Catania, have been based on the generation of warm plasmas by means of microwaves at different frequencies ranging from 2.45 GHz to 28 G...
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Measurement of high x-ray doses from PF1000 plasma focus using Si p-i-n detectors
A thick silicion p-i-n detector of special design has been applied for measurement of medium-hardness x-rays (10÷30 keV) from the 1MJPF1000 Plasma Focus Facility in Warsaw. The detector operates in an integrat...
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Dynamics of the implosion of a tungsten wire array onto the central aluminum wire
Results are presented from the studies of the magnetic implosion of a tungsten wire liner onto an aluminum wire at currents of 2.0–2.6 MA. The experiments were carried out in the S-300 high-power pulsed facili...
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Total Electron Emission from Metals Due to the Impact of Highly-Charged Xe Ions with Energies Up to MeV
Total electron emission from metals due to the impact of multiply charged ions, γ, may significantly influence quantitative measurements of ion current in corpuscular diagnostics. The value of γ (γ/q) was determi...
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Electron yield per ion charge-state correction for an ion collector with unsuppressed secondary electron emission
The electron yield per ion charge-state γ/q was measured for emission of electrons from clean polycrystalline gold induced due to impact of Ta q+ (11≤q≤41) ions with kinetic energy per ...
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Laser induced direct implantation of ions
Results on iodine laser production of Ag, Au, Pb, Sn and Ta ions are presented and experiments on their implantation into steel, Al and plastics are compared and discussed. Ions were implanted without addition...
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Simple technique for measurement of energy spectra of ions from laser produced plasma
Old absorption technique is revived for measuring the energy spectra of ions arising from laser generated plasma. The technique suggested relies on implantation of produced ions into a light element target sit...
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Laser plasma X-ray measurements using thermoluminescent dosimeters and Si photodiodes
The energy of X-rays emitted from laser-produced aluminium plasmas is presented. For absolute time-integrated X-ray measurements thermoluminescent dosimeters LiF:Mg,Cu,P (GR 200A), LiF:Mg,Ti (TLD 100), CaF2:Dy (T...
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Iodine laser production of highly charged Ta ions
The results of systematic studies of multiply charged Ta ion production with the fundamental frequency of an iodine laser (λ=1.315μm), and its 2nd (0.657μm) and 3rd (0.438μm) harmonics are summarized and discusse...
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Ion generation from Al-laser-produced plasma
Particle diagnostics of Al-laser-produced plasma based on ion collectors identified three groups of emitted ions. Their velocity distributions were analyzed to obtain the mean ion energy, energy and charge car...
