| NUKLEONIKA 2011, 56(2):161-163
POST-ACCELERATION OF IONS
FROM THE LASER-GENERATED PLASMA
Lorenzo Giuffrida1,2, Lorenzo Torrisi1,2
1 Laboratori Nazionali del Sud,
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
(National Institute for Nuclear Physics),
62 S. Sofia Str., 95123 Catania, Italy
2 Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Messina,
Ctr. da Papardo-Sperone 31, 98166 Messina, Italy
An application of the laser-generated plasma for multi-energetic ion implantation is reported. In an experiment performed at Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (INFN-LNS) of Catania, Italy the Nd:YAG laser was used, operating at the 1064 nm wavelength with the intensity of 1010 W/cm2. A laser pulse of
9 ns duration and 300 mJ energy was employed to ablate a solid target placed in a high vacuum. The free ion expansion occurred in a constant potential chamber placed at 30 kV positive voltage with respect to the ground, which allowed to extract ions with energy proportional to the charge state. In an another experiment, performed at the PALS Prague laser facility (1315 nm, 400 ps pulse width and the laser pulse energy delivered on target equal to about 35 J) Ti ions were obtained through the ablation of solid targets in vacuum by means of 1015 W/cm2 laser pulses. In both cases ion energy analyzers were used to measure the energy-to-charge ratio of the ions. The ion energy distribution was determined from the time-of-flight measurements. The depth profiles measured through Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS) analysis are in good agreement with the ion energy analyzer spectroscopy measurements.
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