Mitigating parametric instabilities in plasmas by sunlight-like lasers

H. H. Ma; X. F. Li; S. M. Weng; S. H. Yew; S. Kawata; P. Gibbon; Z. M. Sheng; J. Zhang

doi:10.1063/5.0054653

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