'Heater' Laser Pulse Rendering (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

'Heater' Laser Pulse Rendering

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A snapshot of a plasma channel's electron density profile (blue) formed inside a sapphire tube (gray) with the combination of an electrical discharge and an 8-nanosecond laser pulse (red/yellow).

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Gennadiy Bagdasarov/Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics; Anthony Gonsalves, and Jean-Luc Vay/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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