Brilliance improvement of laser-produced soft x-ray plasma by a barrel shock

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mey, Tobias ^a   Rein, Martin ^b   Großmann, Peter ^a   Mann, Klaus ^a  

^a LASER LABORATORIUM GÖTTINGEN E V   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING EFFECT; BACKGROUND GAS; BACKGROUND PRESSURE; BARREL SHOCK; BENEFICIAL EFFECTS; GAS DENSITY; HARTMANN-SHACK WAVEFRONT SENSORS; HIGH-DENSITY REGIONS; JET FLOW; LASER ENERGIES; PARTICLE DENSITIES; PLASMA GENERATION; PULSED GAS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; SCHLIEREN IMAGING; SHOCK STRUCTURE; SOFT X-RAY; SOFT X-RAY RADIATION; SOFT X-RAY SOURCES; SUPERSONIC JETS; TARGET SPECIES;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HELIUM; NITROGEN; NITROGEN PLASMA; PHOTONS; SUPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS; X RAYS;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 84864348842     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/7/073045     Document Type: Article

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