Acquisition of Laser Equipment for the Study of the Interaction of Intense Laser Impulses with Fast Ion Beams and Neutral Systems

该MRI合同用于购买两个超快激光系统，作为堪萨斯州立大学物理系J.R.麦克唐纳(JRM)实验室双组分高强度脉冲激光设备的主干。该设备将实现的计划代表着强激光技术与JRM实验室现有的离子束和动量成像专业知识和能力的结合。这两种能力加在一起，将使我们能够研究强激光脉冲从带电和中性目标上移走电子的机制，并研究(多重)带电离子与被强辐射场“装扮”的目标的相互作用。这些设备将向JRM设施的所有用户提供，包括研究生和本科生、博士后、教职员工和外部用户。

This MRI award provides for the purchase of two ultrafast laser systems that will serve as the backbone for a two-component high-intensity pulsed laser facility in the J. R. Macdonald (JRM) Laboratory in the Physics Department of Kansas State University. The program that the equipment will enable represents a marriage of intense laser technology with the ion-beam and momentum-imaging expertise and capabilities existing presently in the JRM Laboratory. Taken together, the two capabilities will allow the study of the mechanisms whereby electrons are removed from charged and neutral targets by intense laser pulses and the study the interaction of (multiply) charged ions with targets "dressed" by intense radiation fields. The equipment will be available to all users of the JRM facility, including graduate and undergraduate students, post-docs, faculty, and outside users.