Observation of raman forward scattering and electron acceleration in the relativistic regime

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 289-295

  Modena, A ^a   Najmudin, Z ^a   Danger, A E ^a   Clayton, C E ^b   Marsh, K A ^b   Joshi, C ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONS; LASER BEAMS; PLASMA ACCELERATORS; PLASMA WAVES; PLASMAS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

LASER SPECTRUM; PLASMA FREQUENCY; RAMAN BACKWARD SCATTERING; RAMAN FORWARD SCATTERING;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

EID: 0030123415     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.509992     Document Type: Article

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