VUV and soft X-ray emission from pre-plasmas irradiated with picosecond and femtosecond pulses

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4876, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1196-1203

  Murphy, A ^a   Hirsch, J S ^a   Kilbane, D ^b   Kennedy, E T ^a   Khater, M A ^a   Mosnier, J P ^a   Neogi, A ^a   O'Sullivan, G ^b   Lewis, C L S ^c   Topping, S ^c   Clarke, R ^d   Divall, E ^d   Foster, P ^d   Hooker, C ^d   Langley, A ^d   Neely, D ^d   Dunne, P ^b   Costello, J T ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d Harwell Science and Innovation Campus   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Copper; Femtosecond; Laser; Picosecond; Plasma; Spectra; Vacuum UV; X ray

Indexed keywords

COPPER; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; RADIATION EFFECTS; VACUUM APPLICATIONS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

PLASMA IRRADIATION;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0041731563     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.464228     Document Type: Conference Paper

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