Abstract
High-intensity (1013–1017 W/cm2) 1.06 μm laser light absorption experiments with spherical and planar targets suggest that inverse bremsstrahlung absorption is not the dominant absorption mechanism. Evidence is presented that resonance absorption together with ponderomotive force effects such as filamentation and density profile steepening strongly influence the laser light absorption.
© 1977 Optical Society of America
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