Picosecond-resolution soft-x-ray laser plasma interferometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 3938-3946

  Filevich, Jorge ^a   Rocca, Jorge J ^a   Marconi, Mario C ^a,d   Smith, Raymond F ^b   Dunn, James ^b   Keenan, Roisin ^b   Hunter, James R ^b   Moon, Stephen J ^b   Nilsen, Joseph ^b   Ng, Andrew ^b   Shlyaptsev, Vyacheslav N ^c  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER PULSES; OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION EFFECTS; REFRACTION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); X RAY ANALYSIS;

LASER PLASMA INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL LASERS; PICOSECOND-RESOLUTION; PLASMA ELECTRON DENSITY;

LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS;

EID: 3142637378     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.003938     Document Type: Article

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