Improved the properties of laser-produced plasma ions using multichannel laser beams

Abstract

At present, there are number of works devoted to the study of laser-produced plasma as a source of ions for ICF together with heavy ion accelerators and the systems on the base of powerful impulse of electrical charge, i.e. Z-pinches. Laser ion source (LIS) has been recently designed to load the Heidelberg electron beam ion trap with a pulsed beam of charged ions from solid elements. Due to many characteristics of laser-produced plasmas, LIS takes advantages over e.g. a common metal vapor vacuum arc method as a source of ions...