Document Type

Article

Department

Physics (HMC)

Publication Date

10-1995

Abstract

The interaction of an intense laser pulse with large (∼100Å) clusters present in pulsed gas jets is shown to produce novel plasmas with electron temperatures far in excess of that predicted by above-threshold ionization theory. The enhanced absorption of the laser light by the dense clusters results in the production of high ion charge states via collisional ionization resulting in strong x-ray emission from the hot plasma.

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This article is also available from the American Physical Society at http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.3122.

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