OBSERVATIONS CONSISTENT WITH SELF-GENERATED MAGNETIC-FIELDS IN CO2 LASER-PRODUCED PLASMAS

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EBRAHIM, NA [1 ]
RICHARDSON, MC [1 ]
FEDOSEJEVS, R [1 ]
FELDMAN, U [1 ]
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[1] USN,RES LAB,EO HULBURT CTR SPACE RES,WASHINGTON,DC 20375
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10.1063/1.91057
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The spatial structure of extreme ultraviolet (XUV) line emission from plasmas produced by nanosecond CO2 laser pulses has been examined with a slitless normal-incidence vacuum-ultraviolet spectrograph in the 200-500-Å spectral region. The anomalous structural behavior of these spectra is consistent with the existence of self-generated magnetic fields. These fields could also explain the gross plasma structure observed through picosecond interferometry.
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