Investigation of a channeling high-intensity laser beam in underdense plasmas

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1057-1070

  Najmudin, Z ^a,g   Dangor, A E ^a   Modena, A ^a,f   Salvati, M R ^b,f   Clayton, C E ^a   Danson, C N ^c   Gordon, Daniel F ^a   Joshi, C ^d   Marsh, K A ^e   Malka, V ^a   Muggli, Patrick ^d   Neely, D ^f   Walsh, F N ^a   Danger, A E ^e  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Harwell Science and Innovation Campus   (United Kingdom)

^e NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNELING; HIGH INTENSITY LASER BEAM; LASER PROPAGATION; SMALL ANGLE THOMSON SCATTERING; UNDERDENSE PLASMAS;

HIGH INTENSITY LIGHT; LASER PULSES; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PLASMA WAVES; PLASMAS; RAMAN SCATTERING; STABILITY;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

EID: 0034240024     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.893290     Document Type: Article

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