Bursts of superreflected laser light from inhomogeneous plasmas due to the generation of relativistic solitary waves

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 3434-3437

  Sentoku, Y ^a   Esirkepov, T Z H ^b   Mima, K ^a   Nishihara, K ^a   Califano, F ^c   Pegoraro, F ^c   Sakagami, H ^d   Kitagawa, Y ^a   Naumova, N M ^e   Bulanov, S V ^e  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d Himeji Technological University   (Japan)

^e PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 0000886514     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3434     Document Type: Article

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