Guiding microwave radiation using laser-induced filaments: The hollow conducting waveguide concept

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 45, Issue 26, 2012, Pages

  Alshershby, Mostafa ^a   Hao, Zuoqiang ^a   Lin, Jingquan ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION LENGTHS; CONDUCTING PLASMA; CONDUCTING WAVEGUIDE; EFFECTIVE ELECTRON DENSITIES; FREE SPACE PROPAGATION; GUIDED MODES; LASER INDUCED; LASER PLASMA; MICROWAVE TRANSMISSION; MICROWAVE WAVEGUIDES; OPERATING FREQUENCY; PLASMA WALL; SKIN DEPTH; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES; PLASMA WAVES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN PLASMA;

EID: 84862536630     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/45/26/265401     Document Type: Article

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