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Possibility of controlling the coherence properties of high-power laser beams with a plasma filter

V. V. Aleksandrov, M. V. Brenner, S. V. Loburev, N. G. Koval'skii, A. M. Rubenchik


Abstract: An investigation was made of the energy, angular, spectral, and coherence characteristics of highpower radiation from a neodymium laser, scattered by a plasma corona on the surface of an irradiated solid target. The high homogeneity of the beam formed from the scattered radiation was due to the loss of coherence on a reflecting surface which acquired a rippled structure. An analysis was made of the possibility of using plasma filters in laser fusion experiments to provide the required homogeneity of irradiation of spherical targets.

UDC: 621.373.826.038.823

PACS: 42.55.Rz, 42.60.Jf, 52.80.Hc, 52.50.Jm

Received: 26.03.1985

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1986, 16:4, 443–447

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