Plasma filament investigation by transverse optical interferometry and terahertz scattering

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6829-6835

  Bodrov, Sergey ^a,b   Bukin, Vladimir ^c   Tsarev, Maxim ^a,b   Murzanev, Aleksey ^a   Garnov, Sergey ^c   Aleksandrov, Nickolay ^d   Stepanov, Andrey ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b LOBACHEVSKY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD   (Russian Federation)

^c PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMAS; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

DENSITY EVOLUTION; ELECTRON DENSITIES; INTENSE FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PLASMA DISTRIBUTION; PLASMA FILAMENTS; SCATTERING TECHNIQUES; TERA HERTZ; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; TRANSVERSE OPTICAL; TRANSVERSE SIZES;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAS; HEAT; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GASES; HOT TEMPERATURE; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 79953190809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006829     Document Type: Article

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