Using a short-pulse diffraction-limited laser beam to probe filamentation of a random phase plate smoothed beam

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Kline, J L ^a   Montgomery, D S ^a   Flippo, K A ^a   Johnson, R P ^a   Rose, H A ^a   Shimada, T ^a   Williams, E A ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW INTERACTIONS; LASER BEAMS; LASER DIAGNOSTICS; LASERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA JETS; PLASMAS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLDERED JOINTS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BEAM BREAKUPS; BEAM PROPAGATIONS; BREAK UP; DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; FAST DYNAMICS; FILAMENTATION; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS; INTENSITY PATTERNS; JET PLASMAS; LASER PROBES; NEAR FIELDS; PHASE FRONTS; PICO SECONDS; PLASMA INDEX OF REFRACTIONS; PROBE BEAMS; PULSE PROBES; QUALITATIVE AGREEMENTS; QUASISTATIC; RANDOM PHASE PLATES; SHORT PULSES; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS; TIME SCALES; TRANSMITTED INTENSITIES; UNDERDENSE PLASMAS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN PLASMA;

EID: 55349135949     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2955927     Document Type: Conference Paper

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