Reduction of early-time perturbation growth in ablatively driven laser targets using tailored density profiles

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 3283-3295

  Metzler, Nathan ^a   Velikovich, Alexander L ^b   Gardner, John H ^c  

^a NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Berkeley Research Associates   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0001598530     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.873569     Document Type: Article

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