Vulcan petawatt - An ultra-high-intensity interaction facility

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Danson, C N ^a   Brummitt, P A ^a   Clarke, R J ^a   Collier, J L ^a   Fell, B ^a   Frackiewicz, A J ^a   Hancock, S ^a   Hawkes, S ^a   Hernandez Gomez, C ^a   Holligan, P ^a   Hutchinson, M H R ^a   Kidd, A ^a   Lester, W J ^a   Musgrave, I O ^a   Neely, D ^a   Neville, D R ^a   Norreys, P A ^a   Pepler, D A ^a   Reason, C J ^a   Shaikh, W ^a   Winstone, T B ^a   Wyatt, R W W ^a   Wyborn, B E ^a   more..

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; AMPLIFICATION; ATOMIC PHYSICS; GLASS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; PHOTONS; PLASMAS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS (AO); CENTRAL LASER FACILITY (CLF); IGNITION FUSION; VULCAN PETAWATT;

FUSION REACTIONS;

EID: 19944384877     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/44/12/S15     Document Type: Article

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