Modeling single-frequency laser-plasma acceleration using particle-in-cell simulations: The physics of beam breakup

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 379-392

  Decker, C D ^a,c   Mori, Warren B ^b   Tzeng, Kuo Cheng ^a   Katsouleas, Thomas C ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; LASER THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHYSICS; PLASMA ACCELERATORS; PLASMA THEORY; RAMAN SCATTERING; SATELLITES;

ELECTRON ACCELERATION; PARTICLE IN CELL MODEL; PONDEROMOTIVE FORCE; RAMAN FORWARD SCATTERING SATELLITES; RAMAN FORWARD SCATTERING TYPE INSTABILITIES; SIMULATIONS MODEL PULSE PROPAGATION; SINGLE FREQUENCY LASERS;

PLASMA WAVES;

EID: 0030121724     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.510002     Document Type: Article

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