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Probing plasma dynamics

Researchers in Germany have shown that an ultrafast electron beam can be used to probe the dynamics of laser-generated plasmas with picosecond resolution.

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Figure 1: A solid-state analogy of an optical-field ionized plasma.

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Corkum, P. Probing plasma dynamics. Nature Photon 2, 272–273 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2008.62

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