Driving laser pulse evolution in a hollow channel laser wakefield accelerator

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 3403-3410

  Volfbeyn, P ^a   Lee, P B ^a   Wurtele, J ^a   Leemans, W P ^a   Shvets, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA ACCELERATORS; PLASMA WAVES; PLASMAS; WAKES;

LASER PULSE GENERATION; LASER PULSE SHAPE DISTORTION; LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATOR; ONE DIMENSIONAL EQUATION;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0031231990     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.872482     Document Type: Article

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