Guiding of high intensity laser pulses in straight and curved plasma channel experiments

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 4186-4189

  Ehrlich, Y ^a   Cohen, C ^a   Zigler, A ^a   Krall, J ^b   Sprangle, P ^b   Esarey, E ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRODES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PHOTODIODES; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA FLOW; POLYPROPYLENES; VACUUM;

CYLINDRICAL PLASMA CHANNEL; KINETIC ENERGY; OPTICAL GUIDING; PARAXIAL WAVE EQUATION; RAYLEIGH LENGTH; VACUUM DIFFRACTION;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0030284904     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.4186     Document Type: Article

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