Filamentation and forward Brillouin scatter of entire smoothed and aberrated laser beams

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 7, Issue 5 II, 2000, Pages 2023-2032

  Still, C H ^a   Berger, R L ^a   Langdon, A B ^a   Hinkel, D E ^a   Suter, L J ^a   Williams, E A ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0000273969     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.874055     Document Type: Article

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