Plasma mirrors for ultrahigh-intensity optics

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 424-429

  Thaury, C ^a   Quere F ^a   Geindre, J P ^b   Levy, A ^a   Ceccotti, T ^a   Monot, P ^a   Bougeard, M ^a   Reau F ^a   D'Oliveira, P ^a   Audebert, P ^b   Marjoribanks, R ^c   Martin, Ph ^a  

^a Centre d Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay   (France)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LIGHT; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

CONVENTIONAL LIGHT SOURCES; HIGH ORDER HARMONICS; LASER FREQUENCY; POLISHED SURFACES; SPECULAR REFLECTIONS; TEMPORAL CONTRAST; ULTRA HIGH INTENSITY LASERS; ULTRAHIGH INTENSITY;

LASER MIRRORS;

EID: 34249900455     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys595     Document Type: Article

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