Investigations of short-pulse ultraviolet laser interactions with gas targets

This thesis presents investigations of interactions of a 380 fs, 248.6 nm KrF laser beam focused to intensities up to 10<sup>18</sup> W/cm<sup>2</sup> with gas targets of Helium and Neon. At these intensities, the targets are rapidly ionised by the process of optical field io...

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Main Author: Preston, Stephen Gareth
Published: University of Oxford 1995
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.308675