Optimized Kα x-ray flashes from femtosecond-laser-irradiated foils

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

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Lu, W ^a   Nicoul, M ^a   Shymanovich, U ^a   Tarasevitch, A ^a   Zhou, P ^a   Sokolowski Tinten, K ^a   Von Der Linde, D ^a   Masek M ^b   Gibbon, P ^c   Teubner, U ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES EMDEN LEER   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; COLLISIONLESS ABSORPTION; ELECTRON-DENSITY GRADIENTS; FEMTOSECONDS; INCIDENCE GEOMETRY; LASER WAVELENGTH; LASER-IRRADIATED FOILS; OBLIQUE ANGLES; P-POLARIZED; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS; PREPULSES; RESONANCE ABSORPTION; SCALE LENGTH; STEEP GRADIENTS; TITANIUM TARGETS; X-RAY FLASHES;

ABSORPTION; CELL MEMBRANES; HOT ELECTRONS; LASER PULSES; LASERS; OPTIMIZATION; PLASMAS; RESONANCE; TARGETS; TITANIUM;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 70349237018     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.026404     Document Type: Article

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