Revision of the criterion to avoid electron heating during laser aided plasma diagnostics (LAPD)

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Carbone, E A D ^a   Palomares, J M ^a   Hubner S ^a   Iordanova, E ^a   Van Der Mullen, J J A M ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lasers; Plasma diagnostics interferometry, spectroscopy and imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856999695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/7/01/C01016     Document Type: Article

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