Optical and plasma smoothing of laser imprinting in targets driven by lasers with SSD bandwidths up to 1 THz

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 8, Issue 5 II, 2001, Pages 2331-2337

  Boehly, T R ^a   Goncharov, V N ^a   Gotchev, O ^a,b   Knauer, J P ^a   Meyerhofer, D D ^a,b   Oron, D ^a,c   Regan, S P ^a   Srebro, Y ^a,c   Seka, W ^a   Shvarts, D ^a,c   Skupsky, S ^a   Smalyuk, V A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b Department of Physics and Astronomy ^*

^c NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER NEGEV   (Israel)

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EID: 6644228174     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1352616     Document Type: Article

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