Pulsed femtosecond laser-target momentum coupling in the high-intensity regime

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6261 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hammerling, P ^a   Remo, J L ^b,c  

^a Quantum Resonance Inc   (United States)

^b The Harvard College Observatory   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Femtosecond; Momentum coupling coefficient

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECOND; MOMENTUM COUPLING COEFFICIENT;

IONS; LASER ABLATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; PHOTONS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 33747358858     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.661558     Document Type: Conference Paper

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