Observations consistent with self-generated magnetic fields in CO2 laser-produced plasmas
- 15 July 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 35 (2) , 106-108
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.91057
Abstract
The spatial structure of extreme ultraviolet (XUV) line emission from plasmas produced by nanosecond CO2 laser pulses has been examined with a slitless normal‐incidence vacuum‐ultraviolet spectrograph in the 200–500‐Å spectral region. The anomalous structural behavior of these spectra is consistent with the existence of self‐generated magnetic fields. These fields could also explain the gross plasma structure observed through picosecond interferometry.Keywords
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