Abstract
Using a laser to create a hot plasma appears to be a viable technique for starting up a magnetic mirror machine. Hitting a solid pellet with a focused high-power laser produces a plasma rapidly enough to overcome the buildup instabilities of other techniques.
© 1976 Optical Society of America
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