Pushing the limits of plasma length in inertial-fusion laser-plasma interaction experiments

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Froula, D H ^a   Divol, L ^a   London, R A ^a   Michel, P ^a   Berger, R L ^a   Meezan, N B ^a   Neumayer, P ^a   Ross, J S ^a   Wallace, R ^a   Glenzer, S H ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; DENSITY (OPTICAL); LASER BEAMS;

IGNITION PLASMAS; INTERACTION CODES;

LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS;

EID: 40749159686     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.015002     Document Type: Article

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