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The collision of plasma fronts upon laser breakdown in atmosphere under normal conditions has been studied. This interaction leads to an increase in the integral luminosity (which can be 85% higher than that for the noninteracting plasmas, depending on the regime of motion of the colliding plasma fronts) and in the intensity of emission lines on the background of continuous emission from laser plasma.
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Original Russian Text © O.A. Bukin, A.A. Il’in, I.G. Nagornyĭ, A.N. Pavlov, A.V. Bulanov, 2006, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2006, Vol. 32, No. 13, pp. 32–36.
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Bukin, O.A., Il’in, A.A., Nagornyĭ, I.G. et al. Features of the collision of plasma fronts upon laser breakdown in normal atmosphere. Tech. Phys. Lett. 32, 570–571 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785006070066
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