Photon bubbles and ion acceleration in a plasma dominated by the radiation pressure of an electromagnetic pulse

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Pegoraro, F ^a   Bulanov, S V ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

PHOTON BUBBLES; PLASMA FOIL;

PHOTONS;

EID: 34547893801     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.065002     Document Type: Article

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