Direct evidence of gas-induced laser beam smoothing in the interaction with thin foils

BENOCCI, R., BATANI, D., DEZULIAN, R., REDAELLI, R., LUCCHINI, G., CANOVA, F., STABILE, H., FAURÉ, J., KROUSKÝ, Eduard, MAŠEK, Karel, PFEIFER, Miroslav, SKÁLA, Jiří, DUDŽÁK, Roman, KOENIG, M., TIKHONCHUK, V., NICOLAI, Ph., MALKA, V. Direct evidence of gas-induced laser beam smoothing in the interaction with thin foils. Physics of Plasmas. 2009, 16(1), 012703/1-012703/5. ISSN 1070-664X. E-ISSN 1089-7674. Available: doi: 10.1063/1.3056396