Electro-optic shocks from blowout laser wakefields

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gordon, D F ^a   Ting, A ^a   Helle, M H ^b   Kaganovich, D ^c   Hafizi, B ^c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ICARUS RESEARCH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATING STRUCTURE; CONICAL EMISSION; ELECTRO-OPTICS; ELECTRON SHEATH; FAR FIELD; HARMONIC RADIATION; KEY CHARACTERISTICS; LASER WAKE FIELD; LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATORS; SPECTRAL-ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL PROFILE; THEORETICAL EXPRESSION; THEORETICAL RESULT;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; BLOWOUTS; FORWARD SCATTERING;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 77952632794     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/4/045026     Document Type: Article

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