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Increasing Laser Contrast by Relativistic Self-Guiding and its Application to Laser-Based Proton Acceleration

Yu-hsin Chen, David Alessi, Derrek Drachenberg, Bradley Pollock, Felicie Albert, Joseph Ralph, and Constantin Haefner

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Abstract

Laser-produced energetic protons via target normal sheath acceleration are deteriorated by amplified spontaneous emission (ASE). Here we test a new method of reducing ASE and increasing proton energy by relativistic self-guiding in the plasma.

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