Two-dimensional imaging and modeling of the 14.7 nm Ni-like Pd x-ray laser

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 191-194

  Nilsen, Joseph ^a   Dunn, James ^a   Smith, Raymond F ^a   Barbee Jr , Troy W ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IONS; LASER PULSES; PLASMAS; REACTION KINETICS;

TRAVELING WAVE IRRADIATION;

X RAY LASERS;

EID: 0038174666     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.000191     Document Type: Article

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