Tabletop, ultrahigh-intensty lasars: Dawn of nonlinerar relativistic optics

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 40-45

  Umstadter, D P ^a   Barty, C ^a   Perry, M ^a   Morou, G A ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTRONS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PLASMAS; QUANTUM THEORY;

CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION; LASER PEAK POWER; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; RELATIVISTIC ELECTRONS; RELATIVISTIC PLASMAS; TABLETOP LASERS;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 0032123064     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.9.7.000040     Document Type: Article

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