Self-guided wakefield experiments driven by petawatt-class ultrashort laser pulses

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 36, Issue 4 PART 4, 2008, Pages 1715-1721

  Mangles, Stuart P D ^a   Thomas, Alec G R ^a   Bellei, Claudio ^a   Dangor, A E ^a   Kamperidis, Christos ^a   Kneip, Stefan ^a   Nagel, Sabrina R ^a   Willingale, Louise ^a   Najmudin, Zulfikar ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

High intensity laser; Plasma accelerators

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON OPTICS; EXPERIMENTS; LASER BEAMS; LASERS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA JETS; PLASMAS; PULSE GENERATORS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ELECTRON BEAM ENERGIES; EXTERNAL-; FOCUSING GEOMETRY; GUIDING STRUCTURES; HIGH INTENSITY LASER; LASER AND PLASMA; LASER WAKE FIELD; NONLINEAR SCALINGS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PETAWATT; PLASMA ACCELERATORS; TARGET PARAMETERS; ULTRA SHORT LASER PULSES; ULTRASHORT-PULSE LASERS; WAKE FIELDS;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 50249122724     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2008.2000961     Document Type: Article

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