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Instability of the overdense plasma boundary induced by the action of a powerful photon beam
Phys. Rev. E 48, 2924 – Published 1 October, 1993
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.48.2924
Abstract
An analytic solution describing an instability of a vacuum–overdense-plasma interface under the action of a powerful laser pulse is developed. The explicit dispersion relations and the space and time dependence of the perturbations have been obtained in the linear approximation. The influence of the instability on the interaction process is discussed and some comparisons with previous studies are presented.
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