Evidence of soft X-ray lasing in SIGNAL pulsed-power facility experiments with argon capillary plasma

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 34, Issue 5 III, 2006, Pages 2368-2376

  Ostashev, Vladimir Ivanovich ^a   Gafarov, Ayrat M ^a   Politov, Vadim Yurievich ^a   Shushlebin, Alexander Nicolaevich ^a   Antonova, Larisa Vasilievna ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Capillary discharge; Multicharged plasma; Pulsed power facility; X ray laser

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY DISCHARGE; MULTICHARGES PLASMA; PULSED-POWER FACILITY;

ARGON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAS DYNAMIC LASERS; KINETIC THEORY; NUMERICAL METHODS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

X RAY LASERS;

EID: 33750427497     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2006.878366     Document Type: Article

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