Stereolithography based method of creating custom gas density profile targets for high intensity laser-plasma experiments

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Jolly, S W ^a   He, Z ^a   McGuffey, C ^a,b   Schumaker, W ^a   Krushelnick, K ^a   Thomas, A G R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY PROFILE; GAS DENSITY; GAS TARGETS; HIGH INTENSITY; HIGH INTENSITY LASER-PLASMA INTERACTIONS; LASER PLASMA;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84866863826     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4731782     Document Type: Review

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