Observation of the plasma channel dynamics and Coulomb explosion in the interaction of a high-intensity laser pulse with a He gas jet
- 1 December 1997
- journal article
- Published by Pleiades Publishing Ltd in JETP Letters
- Vol. 66 (12) , 828-834
- https://doi.org/10.1134/1.567605
Abstract
We report the first interferometric observations of the dynamics of electron-ion cavitation of relativistically self-focused intense 4 TW, 400 fs laser pulse in a He gas jet. The electron density in aKeywords
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