Nonlinear laser focusing using a conical guide and generation of energetic ions

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

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Cao, Lihua ^a   Yu, Wei ^b,c   Yu, M Y ^c,d   Xu, Han ^e   He, X T ^a,c,f   Gu, Yuqiu ^g   Liu, Zhanjun ^a   Li, Jinghong ^a   Zheng, Chunyang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS AND COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^f PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g RESEARCH CENTER OF LASER FUSION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; ELECTROLYSIS; IONS; LASER BEAMS; LASER FUSION; LASER PULSES; LASERS; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

CONVENTIONAL METHODS; ENERGETIC IONS; FOCUSING EFFECTS; HIGH-DENSITY; INNER SURFACES; LASER FOCUSING; LASER-PLASMA INTERACTION; LIGHT INTENSITIES; LIGHT PULSES; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS; PULSE SHAPING; PUNCH-THROUGH; SPOT SIZES; THIN FOILS; THIN TARGET;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 52649169229     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.036405     Document Type: Article

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