Relativistic Channeling of a Picosecond Laser Pulse in a Near-Critical Preformed Plasma

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 879-882

  Borghesi, M ^a   MacKinnon, A J ^a   Barringer, L ^a   Gaillard, R ^a   Gizzi, L A ^a   Meyer, C ^a   Willi, O ^a   Pukhov, A ^b   Meyer Ter Vehn, J ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLASMA DENSITY; PROBES; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION; OPTICAL PROBES; PARTICLE IN CELL SIMULATION; PICOSECOND LASER PULSE; RELATIVISTIC CHANNELING; SCHLIEREN PHOTOGRAPHY;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0031550489     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.879     Document Type: Article

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