Quantitative study of the ionization-induced refraction of picosecond laser pulses in gas-jet targets

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1473-1476

  Mackinnon, A J ^a   Borghesi, M ^a   Iwase, A ^a   Jones, M W ^a   Pert, G J ^b   Rae, S ^c   Burnett, K ^c   Willi, O ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETRY; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; EXCIMER LASERS; FOCUSING; HELIUM; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NEON; PHOTOIONIZATION; PLASMA DENSITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

GAS JET TARGETS; LASER ENERGY MEASUREMENT; MOIRE DEFLECTOMETER; REFRACTION ANGLE; REFRACTIVE DEFOCUSING;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

EID: 7244229722     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.1473     Document Type: Article

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