Photon acceleration and modulational instability during wakefield excitation using long laser pulses

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Trines, R M G M ^a   Murphy, C D ^a,e   Lancaster, K L ^a   Chekhlov, O ^a   Norreys, P A ^a,e   Bingham, R ^b,f   Mendonca J T ^c   Silva, L O ^c   Mangles, S P D ^d   Kamperidis, C ^d   Thomas, A ^d   Krushelnick, K ^d,g   Najmudin, Z ^d  

^a Science and Technology Facilities Council   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE SHIFT; FOCAL SPOT; HELIUM GAS JET; MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY; NUMERICAL CODE; PHOTON ACCELERATION; RAMAN INSTABILITIES; SECONDARY PEAK; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPECTRAL MODULATION; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS; UNDERDENSE PLASMAS; WAKE FIELDS;

HELIUM; IONIZATION OF GASES; LASER BEAMS; LASER EXCITATION; LASERS; MODULATION; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PHOTONS; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA STABILITY; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 67649200865     PISSN: 07413335     EISSN: 13616587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/51/2/024008     Document Type: Article

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