The effect of background gas on the propagation of a highhyphen;intensity Nd: glass laser beam to a target

摘要

The xhyphen;ray emission from a Ni target irradiated with an 8hyphen;ns Nd: glass laser pulse focused to sim;5times;1013W/cm2did not change when up to 2hyphen;torr Xe was added to the target chamber. This suggests that the incident laser beam was not affected appreciably as it propagated through the background gas to the target.