Reduction of stimulated scattering losses from hohlraum plasmas with laser beam smoothing

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 8, Issue 5 I, 2001, Pages 1692-1696

  Glenzer, S H ^a   Berger, R L ^a   Divol, L M ^a,b   Kirkwood, R K ^a   MacGowan, B J ^a   Moody, J D ^a   Langdon, A B ^a   Suter, L J ^a   Williams, E A ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CEA DIF   (France)

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EID: 0035326330     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1363613     Document Type: Article

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