An estimate of threshold intensity of the leading edge of ultrashort laser pulses in interaction with solid targets

Optics Communications

Volumn 126, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 85-88

  Zhang, Ying ^a   Zhang, Jie ^a,b   Pan, Shao Hua ^a   Nie, Yu Xin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ESTIMATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IRRADIATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMAS; RESONANCE; TARGETS;

HELMHOLTZ WAVE EQUATION; RESONANCE ABSORPTION; SOLID TARGET; THRESHOLD INTENSITY;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0030147809     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0030-4018(96)00023-5     Document Type: Article

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