Abstract
A magnetic field in a laser-irradiated plasma is shown to have an important effect on the resonant absorption of the laser radiation normally incident on the inhomogeneous plasma. For typical paramaters in laser-fusion experiments, the absorption coefficient is above 50% with between 1.5 and 10 and a maximum of ∼ 70% is achieved for .
- Received 19 May 1977
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.39.338
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