Biancalana V, Borghesi M, Chessa P, Deha I, Giulietti A, Giulietti D, Gizzi La, Willi O
NONLINEAR WAVES AND NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN PLASMA General Physics and Astronomy
The level of second-harmonic light emitted from a laser-exploded foil plasma at nominal irradiance up to 3.10(13) W/cm2 was found to be extremely sensitive to both target position and irradiance on target. Either a small target displacement or a small increase in irradiance resulted in a jump of the 2omega level of more than three orders of magnitude. Correspondingly, a transition was observed from a 2omega source pattern clearly signed by the original laser spot pattern to unstable patterns of filaments whose size is consistent with the maximum growth of the instability.
Source: EUROPHYSICS LETTERS (PRINT), vol. 22 (issue 3), pp. 175-180
@article{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:252050, title = {Transition to filamentary regime in laser-plasma interaction evidenced by 2\ω emisssion}, author = {Biancalana V and Borghesi M and Chessa P and Deha I and Giulietti A and Giulietti D and Gizzi La and Willi O}, doi = {10.1209/0295-5075/22/3/003}, year = {1993} }