Laser-Plasma Interactions 4M.B Hooper Laser-Plasma Interactions 4 is the fourth book in a series devoted to the study of laser-plasma interactions. Subjects covered include laser light propagation, instabilities, compression and hydrodynamics, spectroscopy, diagnostics, computer code, dense plasmas, high-power lasers, X-UV sources and lasers, beat waves, and transport processes. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO THE PHYSICS | 8 |
HIGH INTENSITY LASER PLASMA INTERACTIONS | 8 |
PARTICLE SOURCES | 15 |
ABSORPTION OF INTENSE fs LASER PULSES | 26 |
WAVE ACTION AND PROPAGATION IN MODULATED PLASMAS | 37 |
REFERENCES | 50 |
SELFSIMILAR SOLUTIONS | 68 |
EXPERIMENTS | 80 |
SPECTROSCOPY | 105 |
4 | 111 |
111 | 129 |
TRANSPORT | 139 |
Dr P Rodgers Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Chilton | 285 |
Dr S Spark Department of Physics and Applied Physics | 305 |
EXPERIMENTAL WORK | 367 |
PLASMAS FOR FOCUSING PARTICLE BEAMS | 376 |
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