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PRODUCTION OF STRONGLY COUPLED PLASMAS BY THE LASER IRRADIATION OF THIN METALLIC-FILMS CONFINED WITHIN MICROMETER-SCALE GAPS BY TRANSPARENT INSULATORS

PHYSICAL REVIEW E 50:5 (1994) 3935-3942

Authors:

GR BENNETT, JS WARK, DJ HEADING, NC WOOLSEY, H HE, R CAUBLE, RW LEE, P YOUNG
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SIMULATED X-RAY STREAK CAMERA DATA OF IN-SITU DIFFRACTION FROM LASER-SHOCKED SINGLE-CRYSTALS

(1994) 1919-1922

Authors:

NC WOOLSEY, JS WARK
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SUBPICOSECOND X-RAY-DIFFRACTION

LASER PART BEAMS 12:3 (1994) 507-513

Authors:

JS WARK, H HE
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THOMSON SCATTERING MEASUREMENTS OF OPTICALLY IONIZED PLASMAS PRODUCED BY INTENSE KRF RADIATION - THE OBSERVATION OF HIGH ELECTRON-TO-ION TEMPERATURE RATIOS

P SOC PHOTO-OPT INS 2015 (1994) 270-276

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JS WARK, AA OFFENBERGER, WJ BLYTH, MH KEY, SG PRESTON, Z NAJMUDIN, AE DANGOR, A DJAOUI
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High contrast multi-terawatt pulse generation using chirped pulse amplification on the VULCAN laser facility

Optics Communications 103:5-6 (1993) 392-397

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CN Danson, LJ Barzanti, Z Chang, AE Damerell, CB Edwards, S Hancock, MHR Hutchinson, MH Key, S Luan, RR Mahadeo, IP Mercer, P Norreys, DA Pepler, DA Rodkiss, IN Ross, MA Smith, RA Smith, P Taday, WT Toner, KWM Wigmore, TB Winstone, RWW Wyatt, F Zhou

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High power (8 TW), ultra-short (2.4 ps), pulses have been generated using chirped pulse amplification techniques on the VULCAN Nd: glass laser. A novel oscillator was developed as a driver producing ≈ ps pulses at 105 nm. The oscillator output was stretched prior to amplification and compressed at an aperture of 150 mm. The contrast ratio obtained was ≈ 106, which is suitable for laser plasma interaction studies. © 1993.
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