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S. N. Shafrir

Surface Finish and Subsurface Damage in Polycrystalline Optical Materials

July 2007

34.5 MB

S. Sublett

OMEGA Laser-Driven Hydrodynamic Plasma Jet Experiments with Relevance to Astrophysics

June 2007

78.7 MB

J. E. DeGroote

Surface Interactions Between Nanodiamonds and Glass in Magnetorheological Finishing (MRF)

June 2007

5.9 MB

A. K. Knight

Analysis of the Discrete Stages of the Formation of Polyimide Films by Vapor Deposition and Their Effects on the Films Properties

May 2007

2.6 MB

C.-H. Wu

Chemical Vapor Deposition of Carbon Nanostructures and Carbon Nanotubes-Reinforced Composites

December 2006

6.9 MB

N. G. Usechak

Mode Locking of Fiber Lasers at High Repetition Rates

August 2006

6.1 MB

A. J. Pearlman

Ultrafast NbN Single-Photon Optical Detectors for Quantum Communications

June 2006

8.1 MB

K. S. Anderson

Adiabat Shaping in Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions

March 2006

1.7 MB

S. W. Culligan

Organic Blue Light-Emitting Diodes and Field-Effect Transistors Based on Monodisperse Conjugated Oligomers

February 2006

1.9 MB

L. Guazzotto

Equilibrium and Stability of Tokamak Plasmas with Arbitrary Flow

June 2005

5.2 MB

O. V. Gotchev

Experiments on Dynamic Overpressure Stabilization of the Ablative Richtmyer–Meshkov Instability in ICF Targets

January 2006

2.1 MB

J. Li

Ultrafast Metal-Semiconductor-Metal UV Photodetectors on GaN

September 2004

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M. V. Kozlov

Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Multiple-Species Plasmas

June 2004

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S. Kurebayashi

Using Nuclear Data and Monte-Carlo Techniques to Study Areal Density and Mix in D2 Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions

March 2004

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M. J. Bonino

Material Properties of Spider Silk

May 2003

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F.-Y. Tsai

Engineering Vapor-Deposited Polyimides

June 2002

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E. A. Startsev

Ponderomotive Particle Acceleration in a Plasma

June 2000

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R. Adam

Fabrication and Characterization of Ultrafast Superconducting Optoelectonic Devices

January 2001

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O. A. Konoplev

Generation and Measurement of High Contrast Ultrasound Intense Laser Particles

April 2000

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J. M. Larkin

Optical and Photodynamic Properties of the Higher-Lying States of Rose Bengal

March 2000

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B. J. Buerke

Accurate Measurement of Tunneling Ionization Rates of Atoms in a High-Intensity Laser Field

December 1999

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F. Dahmani

Laser-Driven Mechanical Fracture in Fused Silica

August 1999

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K. Green

Characterization of Time and Frequency Varying Optoelectronic Microwave Silicon Switches

August 1999

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E. M. Michaels

Interferometric Imaging of Semiconductor Devices

August 1999

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J. L. Chaloupka

Observation of Electron Trapping in an Intense Laser Beam

August 1999

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S. J. McNaught

Precise Measurements of Electron Initial Conditions for Tunneling Ionization in an Intense, Elliptically Polarized Laser Field

August 1999

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D. G. Hicks

The Stimulated Brillouin Scattering During the Interaction of Picosecond Laser Pulses with Moderate Scale-Length Plasmas

July 1999

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A. C. Gaeris

Charged Particle Spectroscopy: A New Window on Inertial Confinement Fusion

June 1999

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M. Currie

Ultrafast Electro-Optic Testing of Superconducting Electronics

March 1999

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V. A. Smalyuk

Experimental Investigation of the Nonlinear Rayleigh–Taylor Instability in CH Foils Irradiated by UV Light

February 1999

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R. E. Giacone

Spatiotemporal Evolution and Nonlinear Kinetic Simulations of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering

January 1999

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D. Jacobs-Perkins

Design, Analysis and Implementation of an Ultrafast Electro-Optic Electric-Field Imaging System

November 1998

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E. L. Alfonso

Chemistry and Processing of Polymer Shells

October 1998

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A. V. Chirokikh

Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Experiments on OMEGA

September 1998

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V. N. Goncharov

Self-Consistent Stability Analysis of Ablation Fronts in Inertial Confinement Fusion

March 1998

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J. A. Marozas

Angular Spectrum Representation of Ultrawideband Electromagnetic Pulse Propagation in Loss, Dispersive Dielectric Slab Waveguides

March 1998

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R. Adam

Optically Induced Effects in Y-Ba-Cu-O Josephson Junctions

August 1997

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L. Mu

A Study of Photoconductive Switching Phenomena and an Application in Ultrafast Electrical Pulse Shaping

May 1997

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L. Zheng

Third-Harmonic Generation of Intense Laser Pulses

May 1997

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C.-C. Wang

Ultrafast Testing of Electronic/Optoelectronic Devices

July 1996

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M. Yu

Longitudinal Modulational Instabilities

July 1996

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Y. K. Kostoulas

Femtosecond Carrier Dynamics in III-V Semiconductors Grown at Low Substrate Temperatures

December 1995

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D. L. Brown

Pulse Timing in CW Mode-Locked Nd:YLF Lasers

November 1995

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D. Gupta

Optically Triggered Superconducting Opening Switches

October 1995

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W. Xiong

Fabrication Optoelectronic Properties of Y-Ba-Cu-O Thin Films with Different Oxygen Contents

September 1995

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C. I. Moore

Observation of the Transition from Thomson to Compton Scattering in Optical Multiphoton Interactions with Electrons

July 1995

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X. D. Cao

Propagation of Ultrashort Optical Pulses in Nonlinear Media and Their Applications

December 1994

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M. J. Cumbo

Chemo-Mechanical Interactions in Optical Polishing

May 1993

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S. Alexandrou

The Bent Coplanar Waveguide at Sub-Terahertz Frequencies

January 1994

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J. W. Herman

Time-Resolved Structural Studies of the Low-Index Faces of Lead

October 1993

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E. A. Murphy

Experimental Studies of Surface Melting and Time-Resolved Superheating of Metal Surfaces

August 1993

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J. B. Peatross

The Far-Field Angular Distribution of High-Order Harmonics Produced in Light Scattering from a Thin, Low-Density Gas Target

August 1993

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S. Uchida

The Effects of Resonantly Enhanced Fields in Picosecond Laser Produced Plasmas

August 1992

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G. G. Luther

The Cooperative Transverse Modulational Instability of Counterpropagating Waves

May 1992

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Y.-H. Chuang

Amplification of Broad-Bandwidth Phase-Modulated Laser Counterpropagating Light Waves in Homogeneous Plasma

September 1991

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S. J. Augst

Tunneling Ionization of Noble Gas Atoms Using a High Intensity Laser at 1 mm Wavelength

August 1991

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L. E. Kingsley

A Study of Picosecond, High-Voltage Photoconductive Switching Using Electro-Optic Diagnostics and Computer-Aided Analysis

February 1991

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S. Lin

Picosecond Fluorescence Studies of Physical Processes in Green-Plant Chloroplasts and Green Algae

May 1990

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J.-C. Lee

Applications of Liquid Crystals in Laser Resonators and Amplifiers

May 1990

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R. S. Marjoribanks

Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Nonequilibrium Ionization in Laser-Produced Plasmas

March 1990

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T. B. Norris

Time-Resolved Tunneling in GaAs Quantum Well Structures

May 1989

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H.-C. Chen

Subnanosecond Time-Resolved Electron Diffraction Studies of Short-Pulse Laser Heating in Thin Gold Films

May 1989

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S. H. Batha

The Observation of Enhanced Thomson Scattering in Submicron-Laser Plasmas

April 1989

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J. F. Whitaker

Ultrafast Electrical Signals: Transmission on Broadband Guiding Structures and Transport in the Resonant Tunneling Diode

September 1988

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D. T. Strickland

Development of an Ultra-Bright Laser and an Application to Multi-Photon Ionization

May 1988

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K. E. Meyer

Study of Subpicosecond Electron Transport in GaAs Using Transient Photoconductivity and Transient Absorption Spectroscopy

May 1988

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G. Ball

Injection Seeding of a Q-Switched Nd:YLF Oscillator

December 1987

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D. R. Dykaar

Picosecond Switching Measurements of a Josephson Tunnel Junction

May 1987

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P. A. Slaymaker

Angular Distribution of Amplified Spontaneous Emission—A Comparison of Theory and Laser-Pumped Dye Amplifier Experiment

1987

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R. Peck

Fourier Analysis of the OMEGA Beam Timing Interferometer Data

November 1985

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C. J. McKinstrie

Nonlinear Saturation of Stimulated Raman Scattering in a Collisional Homogeneous Plasma

November 1985

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R. L. Keck

Measurements of Energetic Electron Distributions in UV and IR Laser Plasmas

June 1985

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T. Boehly

Hydrodynamic Efficiency of Planar Targets Irradiated by 351-nm Laser Light

1985

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Y. G. Conturie

Development of an XUV Amplifier

March 1984

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T. J. Kessler

Holographic Wavefront Characterization of a Frequency-Tripled High-Peak-Power Neodymium:Glass Laser

1984

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J. A. Valdmanis

Subpicosecond Electro-Optic Sampling

May 1983

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K. Tanaka

Parametric Instabilities in UV-Laser-Produced Plasmas

July 1982

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S. Kacenjar

The Measurement of Fuel ρR in Laser Fusion Targets Using Elastically Scattered Fuel Ions

July 1982

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A. E. Rosenbluth

Reflecting Properties of X-Ray Multilayer Devices

1982

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S. P. Sarraf

Effects of Prepulse Radiation on Non-Thermal (>10 KeV/Z) Ions in Laser Produced Plasmas

1980

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