Guiding and damping of high-intensity laser pulses in long plasma channels

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2416-2423

  Ehrlich, Y ^a   Cohen, C ^a   Kaganovich, D ^a   Zigler, A ^a   Hubbard, R F ^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

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON BEAMS; LASER PULSES; LASER THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTOIONIZATION; PLASMA DENSITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLID STATE LASERS;

BEAM ENERGY LOSS; CAPILLARY PLASMA CHANNEL; LASER GENERATED PHOTOIONIZATION; LASER GUIDING;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

EID: 0032219354     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.15.002416     Document Type: Article

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