High contrast plasma mirror: Spatial filtering and second harmonic generation at 1019 W cm-2

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Horlein R ^a,d   Dromey, B ^b   Adams, D ^b   Nomura, Y ^a   Kar, S ^b   Markey, K ^b   Foster, P ^b,c   Neely, D ^c   Krausz, F ^a,d   Tsakiris, G D ^a   Zepf, M ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c Harwell Science and Innovation Campus   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PLASMA DENSITY; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

HIGH CONTRAST; HIGH INTENSITY; HIGH-POWER LASERS; ION ACCELERATIONS; LASER REFLECTION; PLASMA DENSITY GRADIENTS; PLASMA-OPTICS; RELATIVISTIC INTENSITIES; REMARKABLE IMPACT; SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION; SOLID DENSITY; SPATIAL FILTERING;

PLASMAS;

EID: 49349093405     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/8/083002     Document Type: Article

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