Radiation pressure acceleration of ultrathin foils

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Macchi, Andrea ^a,b   Veghini, Silvia ^a   Liseykina, Tatyana V ^c,d   Pegoraro, Francesco ^a,e  

^a Department of Physics 'E Fermi' ^*  (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES   (Russian Federation)

^e Unità di Ricerca di Pisa ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LASER PULSE; LASER INTENSITIES; MIRROR MODEL; MODEL PREDICTION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; OPTIMAL THICKNESS; RADIATION PRESSURE; RADIATION PRESSURE ACCELERATIONS; SELF-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; SOLID DENSITY PLASMAS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; ULTRA-THIN;

PRESSURE; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77952355618     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/4/045013     Document Type: Article

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