Limitations on the attainable intensity of high power lasers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Fedotov, A M ^a   Narozhny, N B ^a   Mourou, G ^b   Korn, G ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY MEPHI   (Russian Federation)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IN-VACUUM; LASER FIELDS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; HIGH POWER LASERS; LASERS;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 77955827121     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.080402     Document Type: Article

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