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Effect of laser light on matter. Laser plasmas

Coulomb explosion of a laser plasma

A. N. Tkachev, S. I. Yakovlenko

General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: The behavior of a plasma produced by multistep selective ionization of a vapor and subjected to an intense pulsed electric field has been studied. Electrons are quickly "sucked" out of such a plasma, and then there is a Coulomb explosion of the net charge.

UDC: 621.373.826:533.9

PACS: 52.50.Jm

Received: 09.02.1993

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 1993, 23:11, 972–974

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