An automated, 0.5Â Hz nano-foil target positioning system for intense laser plasma experiments

Ying Gao; Jianhui Bin; Daniel Haffa; Christian Kreuzer; Jens Hartmann; Martin Speicher; Florian H. Lindner; Tobias M. Ostermayr; Peter Hilz; Thomas F. Rösch; Sebastian Lehrack; Franz Englbrecht; Sebastian Seuferling; Max Gilljohann; Hao DIng; Wenjun Ma; Katia Parodi; Jörg Schreiber

doi:10.1017/hpl.2017.10

An automated, 0.5Â Hz nano-foil target positioning system for intense laser plasma experiments

Ying Gao, Jianhui Bin, Daniel Haffa, Christian Kreuzer, Jens Hartmann, Martin Speicher, Florian H. Lindner, Tobias M. Ostermayr, Peter Hilz, Thomas F. Rösch, Sebastian Lehrack, Franz Englbrecht, Sebastian Seuferling, Max Gilljohann, Hao DIng, Wenjun Ma, Katia Parodi, Jörg Schreiber

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We report on a target system supporting automated positioning of nano-targets with a precision resolution of in three dimensions. It relies on a confocal distance sensor and a microscope. The system has been commissioned to position nanometer targets with 1Â Hz repetition rate. Integrating our prototype into the table-top ATLAS 300 TW-laser system at the Laboratory for Extreme Photonics in Garching, we demonstrate the operation of a 0.5Â Hz laser-driven proton source with a shot-to-shot variation of the maximum energy about 27% for a level of confidence of 0.95. The reason of laser shooting experiments operated at 0.5Â Hz rather than 1Â Hz is because the synchronization between the nano-foil target positioning system and the laser trigger needs to improve.

Original language	English
Article number	e12
Journal	High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Volume	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2017.10
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

high intense laser
nm thick target positioning system
repetition rated laser-driven ion source

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Gao, Y., Bin, J., Haffa, D., Kreuzer, C., Hartmann, J., Speicher, M., Lindner, F. H., Ostermayr, T. M., Hilz, P., Rösch, T. F., Lehrack, S., Englbrecht, F., Seuferling, S., Gilljohann, M., DIng, H., Ma, W., Parodi, K., & Schreiber, J. (2017). An automated, 0.5Â Hz nano-foil target positioning system for intense laser plasma experiments. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 5, Article e12. https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2017.10

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An automated, 0.5Â Hz nano-foil target positioning system for intense laser plasma experiments

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