High power lasers and their new applications

Journal of the Optical Society of Korea

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 178-185

  Izawa, Yasukazu ^a   Miyanaga, Noriaki ^a   Kawanaka, Junji ^a   Yamakawa, Koichi ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Advanced lasers; High power lasers; High energy density science; Laser driven nuclear processes; Laser fusion; Laser generation of energetic particles; Relativistic plasma

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849120391     PISSN: 12264776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3807/JOSK.2008.12.3.178     Document Type: Article

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