3/2 harmonic generation by femtosecond laser pulses in steep-gradient plasmas

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

Volumn 68, Issue 2 2, 2003, Pages

  Tarasevitch, A ^a   Dietrich, C ^a   Blome, C ^a   Sokolowski Tinten, K ^a   Von der Linde, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; ELECTRONS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER PULSES; PLASMA STABILITY; SOLIDS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACES;

COLLISIONAL DAMPING; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; HARMONIC EMISSION; LASE WAVELENGTH; STEEP-GRADIENT PLASMAS;

PLASMA THEORY;

EID: 42749105599     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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