Experimental observation of filamentation growth in laser-produced plasmas
- 1 July 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Plasmas
- Vol. 2 (7) , 2815-2824
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.871179
Abstract
The filamentation instability has been observed and systematically studied in a low Z plasma under a variety of density gradients and electron temperatures. Growth lengths have been measured for several plasma conditions and as a function of the spatial size of the imposed intensity perturbation. The filamentation growth is compared to a model that assumes nonlocal electron energy transport and to ponderomotive theory.Keywords
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