Relativistic plasma shutter for ultraintense laser pulses

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Reed, Stephen A ^a   Matsuoka, Takeshi ^a   Bulanov, Stepan ^a   Tampo, Motonobu ^b   Chvykov, Vladimir ^a   Kalintchenko, Galina ^a   Rousseau, Pascal ^a   Yanovsky, Victor ^a   Kodama, Ryousuke ^b   Litzenberg, Dale W ^a   Krushelnick, Karl ^a   Maksimchuk, Anatoly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC SIGNATURE; HIGH INTENSITY LASER PULSE; LEADING EDGE; LOW-INTENSITY; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS; PEAK PULSE; PROTON SPECTRA; RELATIVISTIC PLASMAS; TEMPORAL CONTRAST; ULTRA-THIN; ULTRAINTENSE LASER PULSE; UNDERDENSE PLASMAS;

FLUID DYNAMICS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LASER PULSES; LASERS;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 65949085802     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3139860     Document Type: Article

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