Control of laser-beam propagation and absorption in a nanoplasma gas by programming of a transient complex refractive index with a prepulse

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 3 2, 2004, Pages

  Chu, H E ^a,b   Tsai, H E ^a,b   Xiao, Y F ^a,b   Lee, C H ^c   Lin, J Y ^d   Wang, J ^a,b   Chen, S Y ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERFEROMETRY; IONIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PLASMAS; POLARIZATION; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; X RAYS;

INTRANANOPLASMA ELECTRON DENSITY; LASER-BEAM PROPAGATION; NANOPLASMA GAS; OPTICALLY CONTROLLED FOCUSING;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 42749103750     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.035403     Document Type: Article

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