Study of hot electron transport in foil, wedge, and cone targets irradiated with ultraintense laser pulses

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Cho, Bicho I ^a   Osterholz, J ^a,b   Galloudec, N Renard Le ^c   Bernstein, A C ^a   Dyer, G ^a   Ditmire, Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONS; LASER PULSES; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

COHERENT TRANSITION RADIATION; HOT-ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LASER CONFIGURATION; TEMPERATURE CHARACTERISTIC; TRANSITION RADIATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; ULTRAINTENSE LASER PULSE; X-RAY DETECTIONS;

HOT ELECTRONS;

EID: 51849107489     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.25.000B50     Document Type: Conference Paper

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