Light Intensification towards the Schwinger Limit

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Bulanov, Sergei V ^a   Esirkepov, Timur ^a   Tajima, Toshiki ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODYNAMICS; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; PLASMAS; QUANTUM THEORY;

LASER PULSE COMPRESSION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 0141938837     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.085001     Document Type: Article

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