Femtosecond Growth Dynamics of an Underdense Ionization Front Measured by Spectral Blueshifting

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 20-33

  Wood, William M ^a   Siders, Craig W ^a   Downer, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASES; LASER PULSES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FEMTOSECOND GROWTH DYNAMICS; IONIZATION FRONTS; IONIZING PULSES; SPECTRAL BLUESHIFTING;

IONIZATION;

EID: 0027543537     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.221098     Document Type: Note

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