Efficient absorption and intense soft x-ray emission from gas cluster plasmas irradiated by 25-ps laser pulses

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1006-1012

  Sailaja, Sivaraman ^a   Khan, Riyaz Ahmed ^a   Naik, Prasad Anant ^a   Gupta, Parshotam Dass ^a  

^a RAJA RAMANNA CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Clusters; Laser produced plasmas; X ray emission

Indexed keywords

ARGON; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NITROGEN; X RAYS;

GAS CLUSTER PLASMAS; SOFT X RAY EMISSIONS;

LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS;

EID: 21444436021     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2005.848620     Document Type: Article

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