Extending plasma accelerators: Guiding with

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1071-1077

  Tubes, Capillary ^a,e   Gros, B ^a   Courtois, C ^b   Malka, G ^c   Matthieussent, G ^a   Marques, J R ^c   Dorchies, F ^d   Amiranoff, F ^c   Rebibo, S ^d   Hamoniaux, G ^b   Blanchot, N ^a   Miquel, J L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

^d DIF   (France)

^e CEA DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Guiding; Plasma accelerator

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; HIGH INTENSITY LIGHT; LASER PULSES; PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES; PLASMA WAVES; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; DEPHASING LENGTH; DIFFRACTION LENGTH; LASER WAKEFIELD; MONOMODE GUIDING;

PLASMA ACCELERATORS;

EID: 0034239984     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.893291     Document Type: Article

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