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Laser Interactions Create Powerful Magnetic Fields

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Intense laser pulses, which possess strong magnetic and electric fields, can force the electrons in a plasma to oscillate dramatically. It is this unique interaction, which also produces very high current electron jets, that has fascinated scientists involved in a relatively new and risky area of fusion research. At the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories in Oxfordshire, UK, scientists used the Vulcan Nd:glass laser aimed at plasma targets to produce intense magnetic fields of several million gauss. The interaction between the pulse and preionized plasma produced an incident intensity of a few...Read full article

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    Published: December 1998
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