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The effect of laser contrast on generation of highly charged Fe ions by ultra-intense femtosecond laser pulses

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Experimental studies on the formation of highly charged ions of medium-Z elements using femtosecond laser pulses with different contrast levels were carried out. Multiply charged Fe ions were generated by laser pulses with 35 fs duration and an intensity exceeding 1021 W/cm2. Using high-resolution X-ray spectroscopic methods, bulk electron temperature of the generated plasma has been identified. It is shown that the presence of a laser pre-pulse at a contrast level of 105–106 with respect to the main pulse drastically decreases the degree of Fe ionization. We conclude that an effective source of energetic, multiply charged moderate and high-Z ions based on femtosecond laser–plasma interactions can be created only using laser pulses of ultra-high contrast.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI (Grants #15F15772, 16K05506) and Grant Sakigake # JPMJPR16P9. X-ray data analysis was performed at JIHT RAS with financial support of the Russian Science Foundation (Grant #14-50-00124).

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  1. Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiative, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan

    Anatoly Ya. Faenov & Ruosuke Kodama

  2. Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 125412, Russia

    Anatoly Ya. Faenov, Maria A. Alkhimova, Tatiana A. Pikuz, Igor Yu. Skobelev & Sergey A. Pikuz Jr.

  3. National Research Nuclear University (MEPhI), Moscow, 115409, Russia

    Maria A. Alkhimova, Igor Yu. Skobelev & Sergey A. Pikuz Jr.

  4. Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan

    Tatiana A. Pikuz & Ruosuke Kodama

  5. Kansai Photon Science Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Kizugawa, Kyoto, Japan

    Mamiko Nishiuchi, Hironao Sakaki, Alexander S. Pirozhkov, Akito Sagisaka, Nicholas P. Dover, Kotaro Kondo, Koichi Ogura, Yuji Fukuda, Hiromitsu Kiriyama, Masaki Kando & Kiminori Kondo

  6. Max Born Institute, Max-Born str. 2a, Berlin, 12489, Germany

    Alexander Andreev

  7. ELI-ALPS, Szeged, 6720, Hungary

    Alexander Andreev

  8. Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, 744, Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

    Keita Nishitani, Takumi Miyahara & Yukinobu Watanabe

  9. Photon Pioneers Center, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan

    Ruosuke Kodama

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Faenov, A.Y., Alkhimova, M.A., Pikuz, T.A. et al. The effect of laser contrast on generation of highly charged Fe ions by ultra-intense femtosecond laser pulses. Appl. Phys. B 123, 197 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-017-6771-2

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