Laser plasma interaction and the ion acceleration experiments by high contrast high intensity laser J-KAREN-P system

Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Sakaki, Hironao; Pirozhkov, A. S.; Sagisaka, Akito; Kon, Akira; Fukuda, Yuji; Kiriyama, Hiromitsu; Dover, N.*; Sekiguchi, Kentaro; Ogura, Koichi; Nishitani, Keita*; Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Faenov, A. Y.*; Pikuz, T.*; Hasebe, Hiroo*; Okuno, Hiroki*; Kando, Masaki; Kondo, Kiminori

Petawatt class laser systems are in nowadays almost ready to work in all over the world. High energy particles accelerated by the interaction between laser pulses from high intensity laser system and the material shows interesting and particular parameters. Therefore those attract many fields of applications. High contrast and ultra high intensity laser system J-KAREN at KPSI is now under upgrading for achieving highest energy ion beams. No laser system with pulse duration less than 100 fs has demonstrated 100 MeV class proton acceleration in the world. To achieve high energy ions requires higher intensity laser on the target. We report on this presentation the status of the upgrading and the experimental results obtained at the first light experiment.