Studies of stimulated Raman backscattering and associated nonlinear laser-plasma interactions

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1759-1770

  Salcedo, A ^b   Focia, R J ^c   Ram, A K ^a   Bers, A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MCKINSEY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^c Kulicke and Soffa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; LASER APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA WAVES; RAMAN SCATTERING;

ION ACOUSTIC DAMPING; NONLINEAR LASER PLASMA INTERACTIONS; RAMAN BACKSCATTERING;

PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

EID: 0345761271     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/43/12/020     Document Type: Article

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