The production of hot electrons by the two-plasmon decay instability in a CO2 laser plasma interaction
The generation of hot electrons characterizing the two-plasmon decay (TPD) instability is investigated experimentally both in and out of the plane of polarization of a CO₂ laser incident on an underdense gas target. The results presented here show that, for high intensities (I > ~ 3.5 x 10¹³ W/cm...
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University of British Columbia
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26438 |