Pulse-length dependence of the anisotropy of laser-driven cluster explosions: Transition to the impulsive regime for pulses approaching the few-cycle limit

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Skopalova E ^a   El Taha, Y C ^a   Zair A ^a   Hohenberger, M ^a   Springate, E ^b   Tisch, J W G ^a   Smith, R A ^a   Marangos, J P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Harwell Science and Innovation Campus   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGING DYNAMICS; CLUSTER EXPLOSIONS; DIRECT ACCESS; ENERGETIC ION; FEW-CYCLE; HARMONIC OSCILLATORS; INTENSE LASER FIELD; INTRA-CLUSTER; ION EMISSIONS; LASER IRRADIATIONS; LASER POLARIZATION; NANO SCALE; PULSE LENGTH;

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IONS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); XENON;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 77952491555     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.203401     Document Type: Article

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