William L. Kruer
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William L. Kruer's Degrees
- PhD Physics University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Physics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Physics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William L. Kruer is an American physicist, specializing in plasma physics. Kruer studied at the University of Louisville and received his Ph.D. in 1969 from Princeton University. Afterwards, he was a research associate scientist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and from 1970 a full member of the research staff. Starting in 1972, he was a group leader for theoretical plasma physics and simulation at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and from 1993 a chief scientist in plasma physics there. He wrote an important book on laser plasma interactions.
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Published Works
- Ignition and high gain with ultrapowerful lasers (1994) (2450)
- The Physics of Laser Plasma Interactions (2019) (887)
- Direct-drive inertial confinement fusion: A review (2015) (398)
- J×B heating by very intense laser light (1985) (386)
- Hot electron production and heating by hot electrons in fast ignitor research (1998) (326)
- Absorption of ultrashort, ultra-intense laser light by solids and overdense plasmas (1997) (325)
- Two‐dimensional relativistic simulations of resonance absorption (1975) (230)
- Properties of Resonantly Heated Electron Distributions (1978) (213)
- Symmetry tuning via controlled crossed-beam energy transfer on the National Ignition Facilitya) (2009) (147)
- Trapped-Particle Instability (1969) (145)
- The role of a detailed configuration accounting (DCA) atomic physics package in explaining the energy balance in ignition-scale hohlraums (2011) (145)
- Relativistic quasimonoenergetic positron jets from intense laser-solid interactions. (2010) (137)
- Energy transfer between crossing laser beams (1996) (134)
- The interaction of 1.06 μm laser radiation with high Z disk targets (1979) (115)
- Laser–plasma interactions in ignition‐scale hohlraum plasmas (1996) (111)
- Theory and simulation of one-dimensional Raman backward and forward scattering (1983) (107)
- Heating by Raman Backscatter and Forward Scatter (1980) (104)
- Anomalous High‐Frequency Resistivity of a Plasma (1972) (100)
- Nonlinear saturation and recurrence of the two-plasmon decay instability (1979) (95)
- Laser irradiation of disk targets at 0.53 μm wavelength (1983) (91)
- Multistep redirection by cross-beam power transfer of ultrahigh-power lasers in a plasma (2012) (89)
- Erratum: “Review of the National Ignition Campaign 2009-2012” [Phys. Plasmas 21, 020501 (2014)] (2014) (84)
- Laser-Plasma Interactions at 0.53 μm for Disk Targets of VaryingZ (1981) (79)
- Solitons and Resonant Absorption (1974) (72)
- Absorption of laser light in overdense plasmas by sheath inverse bremsstrahlung (1995) (72)
- Efficient Raman sidescatter and hot-electron production in laser-plasma interaction experiments (1984) (71)
- Nonlinear evolution of the decay instability in a plasma with comparable electron and ion temperatures (1973) (67)
- Long Pulse Laser-Plasma Interactions (1988) (65)
- Comparison of Numerical Solutions of the Vlasov Equation with Particle Simulations of Collisionless Plasmas (1971) (64)
- Laser light absorption by short wavelength ion turbulence (1977) (62)
- Odd harmonic generation of ultra-intense laser pulses reflected from an overdense plasma (1993) (60)
- The dipole expansion method for plasma simulation (1973) (59)
- Limitation of Brillouin scattering in plasmas (1975) (55)
- ANOMALOUS HIGH-FREQUENCY RESISTIVITY AND HEATING OF A PLASMA. (1970) (54)
- Hot electron energy distributions from ultraintense laser solid interactions (2005) (51)
- Irradiation of parylene disks with a 1.06 μm laser (1977) (51)
- Mode-Coupling Saturation of the Parametric Instability and Electron Heating (1973) (50)
- Modulational Instabilities Due to Trapped Electrons (1972) (50)
- Brillouin scatter in laser-produced plasmas (1977) (49)
- Nonlinear estimates of Brillouin scatter in plasma (1980) (48)
- Laser beam propagation and channel formation in underdense plasmas (1995) (47)
- Laser Hole Boring and Hot Electron Generation in the Fast Ignition Scheme (2006) (46)
- Suprathermal electrons generated by the two-plasmon-decay instability in gas-filled Hohlraums (2008) (46)
- Instability-generated laser reflection in plasmas (1973) (44)
- Stopping and thermalization of interpenetrating plasma streams (1991) (44)
- Multibeam Stimulated Raman Scattering in Inertial Confinement Fusion Conditions. (2015) (43)
- Laser-intensity scaling experiments in long-scalelength, laser-produced plasmas (1988) (42)
- Studies of Raman scattering from overdense targets irradiated by several kilojoules of 0.53 μm laser light (1988) (42)
- Raman backscatter in high temperature, inhomogeneous plasmas (1980) (41)
- Interaction of plasmas with intense lasers (1999) (41)
- Direct measurement of energetic electrons coupling to an imploding low-adiabat inertial confinement fusion capsule. (2012) (41)
- Intense laser plasma interactions: From Janus to Nova (1991) (41)
- Stimulated Raman backscatter in ultraintense, short pulse laser–plasma interactions (1995) (40)
- Two‐dimensional ray‐trace calculations of thermal whole beam self‐focusing (1985) (38)
- Interaction of 1.06 μm laser radiation with variable Z̃ targets (1978) (37)
- Nonlinear features of stimulated Brillouin and Raman scattering (1989) (37)
- Electron heating due to parametric instability turbulence (1974) (37)
- Mechanisms for collisionless absorption of light waves obliquely incident on overdense plasmas with steep density gradients (1996) (35)
- Characteristics of lateral and axial transport in laser irradiations of layered‐disk targets at 1.06 and 0.35 μm wavelengths (1984) (35)
- Coexistence of stimulated Raman and Brillouin scattering in laser‐produced plasmas (1991) (33)
- Laser light absorption due to self‐generated magnetic fields (1977) (30)
- Simulations of electron transport for fast ignition using LSP (2005) (30)
- Progress in long scale length laser–plasma interactions (2004) (30)
- Parametric instabilities near the critical density in steepened density profiles (1983) (29)
- Observation and Simulation of Effects on Parylene Disks Irradiated at High Intensities with a 1.06-μm Laser (1976) (29)
- Distributed absorption model for moderate to high laser powers (1992) (28)
- Wavebreaking amplitudes in warm, inhomogeneous plasmas (1979) (27)
- HYBRID PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS OF STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING INCLUDING ION-ION COLLISIONS (1997) (26)
- Efficient Energy Transfer between Fast and Slow Electron Plasma Oscillations (1972) (26)
- Ponderomotive and thermal filamentation of laser light (1985) (25)
- Thresholds of convective Raman backscattering: effects of ⊇n, Thomson scattering, noise, collisions, and Landau damping (1984) (25)
- Parametric instability thresholds and their control (1974) (24)
- Effects of plasma composition on backscatter, hot electron production, and propagation in underdense plasmas (2004) (24)
- Backscattered light near the incident laser wavelength from 0.35 μm irradiated long scale length plasmas (1990) (21)
- OBSERVATION OF THE NONLINEAR SATURATION OF LANGMUIR WAVES DRIVEN BY PONDEROMOTIVE FORCE IN A LARGE SCALE PLASMA (1999) (21)
- Density and temperature profiles in strongly absorbing plasma with distributed absorption (1991) (20)
- Plasma heating and gradient modifications by resonant absorption (1974) (20)
- Theoretical interpretation of angle- and polarization-dependent laser light absorption measurements (1978) (19)
- Ultra-high (>30%) coupling efficiency designs for demonstrating central hot-spot ignition on the National Ignition Facility using a Frustraum (2019) (19)
- FIRST MEASUREMENT OF SHORT LENGTH-SCALE DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS IN A LARGE LASER PLASMA (1999) (18)
- StarDriver: A Flexible Laser Driver for Inertial Confinement Fusion and High Energy Density Physics (2014) (18)
- Narrow Raman spectra: the competition between collisional and Landau damping (1989) (18)
- Theory and simulation of stimulated Raman scatter at near-forward angles (1992) (17)
- Electron-Positron Plasmas Created by Ultra-Intense Laser Pulses Interacting with Solid Targets (2005) (17)
- Beam smoothing effects on the stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) instability in Nova exploding foil plasmas (1995) (17)
- Kinetic simulations of ultra-intense laser plasma interactions (1992) (16)
- Anomalous Heating of Plasma Electrons Driven by a Large Transverse Field at ∼ωpe (1971) (16)
- Experimental studies of stimulated Raman scattering in reactor-size, laser-produced plasmas (1991) (16)
- Interaction of 1.06-μm Laser Radiation with Planar Targets (1977) (16)
- Laser plasma interactions with intensities from 1012–1021 W/cm2 (2003) (16)
- The first target experiments on the National Ignition Facility (2007) (15)
- Introduction to the physics of large amplitude plasma waves (1990) (15)
- OBSERVATIONS OF LASER-BEAM BENDING DUE TO TRANSVERSE PLASMA FLOW (1998) (15)
- Model of resonance absorption with profile modification (1982) (15)
- The Physics of laser plasma interaction / William L. Kruer (1988) (12)
- Particle orbits in two waves of arbitrary amplitude (1971) (11)
- Measurements of absorption and Brillouin sidescattering from planar plasmas produced by 0.53 μm laser light (1989) (11)
- Turbulently heated distribution functions and perturbed orbit theory (1973) (11)
- Role of Trapped Particles in Plasma Waves and Instabilities (1972) (11)
- Raman backscattering and forward scattering thresholds in parabolic density profiles (1988) (10)
- Strongly driven laser-plasma coupling (1998) (9)
- Parametric instabilities in large nonuniform laser plasmas (1992) (9)
- Ultrabroad bandwidth for suppression of laser driven parametric instabilities (1992) (9)
- Heating of underdense plasmas by intense lasers (1973) (9)
- Measurements of near forward scattered laser light in a large inertial confinement fusion plasma (invited) (1999) (8)
- Experimental Investigation of Short Scalelength Density Fluctuations in Laser-Produced Plasmas (2000) (8)
- Theoretical interpretations of enhanced laser light absorption (1975) (8)
- Corona plasma instabilities in heavy ion fusion targets (1991) (8)
- Anomalous heating of plasma by laser irradiation (1971) (7)
- Experimental study of laser beam transmission and power accounting in a large scale length laser plasma (2000) (7)
- Scaling of laser-plasma interactions with laser wavelength and plasma size (1984) (7)
- Plasma simulations using particle codes (1974) (6)
- Theory and simulation of laser plasma coupling (1979) (6)
- Computer simulation of ionospheric radio frequency heating (1990) (6)
- Profile steepening by resonance absorption in spherically‐expanding plasmas (1983) (5)
- First measurement of backscatter dependence on ion acoustic damping in a high density helium/hydrogen laser-plasma (2004) (5)
- ANOMALOUS DAMPING OF LARGE-AMPLITUDE ELECTRON PLASMA OSCILLATIONS. (1970) (5)
- Simulations of electromagnetic wave plasma interactions (1990) (5)
- INTERPLAY BETWEEN LASER PLASMA INSTABILITIES (1998) (4)
- The first experiments on the national ignition facility (2005) (4)
- Collective behavior in recent laser-plasma experiments (1977) (4)
- Plasma Heating by Large-Amplitude, Low-Frequency Electric Fields (1972) (4)
- Critical Density Interaction Studies (2001) (3)
- Intensity scaling and saturation of stimulated Raman forward scattering (1994) (3)
- Advances in Plasma Physics, Volume 6. (1976) (3)
- Instantaneous Wave Emission Model (1971) (3)
- Theory and simulation of Raman scattering in intense short-pulse laser-plasma interactions (1991) (3)
- Observations of Parametric Instabilities in Long Scalelength Plasmas (1984) (2)
- Erratum: Evidence for collisional damping in high-energy Raman-scattering experiments at 0.26 m (Physical Review Letters (1985) 54, 16, (1878)) (1985) (2)
- Reply to the comments of Simon and Short (1989) (2)
- Nonlinear Behavior of Light-Driven Plasma Instabilities (1974) (2)
- Compression measurements in ablatively driven inertial confinement fusion (1986) (2)
- Wavelength scaling experiments at the Argus laser facility (1981) (2)
- Erratum: ‘‘Narrow Raman spectra: The competition between collisional and Landau damping’’ [Phys. Fluids B 1, 2217 (1989)] (1990) (2)
- Nonlocal Electron Heat Transport in Laser Driven Hohlraums (1997) (2)
- Introduction to ultra‐intense‐laser plasma interactions (2008) (2)
- Short pulse lasers for generation of fields exceeding 100 MG (1992) (2)
- Increased x‐ray conversion efficiency from gold plasmas irradiated with spatially and temporally incoherent light (1991) (2)
- Observation of the saturation of Langmuir waves driven by ponderomotive force in a large scale plasma (1997) (1)
- Laser light absorption and harmonic generation due to self-generated magnetic fields (1977) (1)
- Laser Plasma Coupling for High Temperature Hohlraums (1999) (1)
- Blue and Green Light? Wavelength Scaling for NIF (2003) (1)
- Collective plasma behavior in laser plasma experiments (1976) (1)
- Distributed Absorption and Inhibited Heat Transport (1992) (1)
- Plasma heating at one-quarter critical density (1973) (1)
- Investigation of Ion Waves (1972) (1)
- Beat‐wave heating with density profile steepening (1986) (1)
- Efficient coupling of 527 nm laser beam power to a long scalelength plasma (2005) (1)
- Interaction Physics for Megajoule Laser Fusion Targets (1992) (1)
- Anomalous Absorption of Intense Radiation (1972) (1)
- A New Version of the Dipole Expansion Scheme (1970) (1)
- Assessing the 2ω pe instability and other preheat considerations in ignition-scale hohlraums (2010) (1)
- On the Use of Reduced Mass Targets to Obtain High Temperature Solid Density Materials using Petawatt Lasers for Astrophysical Applications (2005) (1)
- Absorption of intense microwaves and ion acoustic turbulence due to heat transport (1994) (1)
- The LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) ICF (Inertial Confinement Fusion) Program: Progress toward ignition in the Laboratory (1990) (1)
- Deflection, spraying and induced scattering of intense laser beams in plasmas (1996) (1)
- StarDriver: A Flexible Laser Driver for Inertial Confinement Fusion and High Energy Density Physics (2014) (1)
- Perturbed orbit theory and numerical simulations of parametric heating (1972) (1)
- Laser-Plasma Coupling with Ignition-Scale Targets: New Regimes and Frontiers on the National Ignition Facility (2013) (1)
- Wavelength scaling of laser plasma coupling (1983) (1)
- Experimental Studies of Simultaneous 351 nm and 527 nm Laser Beam Interactions in a Long Scalelength Plasma (2003) (1)
- The creation of electric fields within plasma shock fronts (2010) (1)
- Limitation of brillouin scatter in plasmas (1975) (1)
- Atomic and nuclear processes produced in ultra-high intensity laser irradiation of solid targets (1998) (1)
- Laser Plasma Instability Reduction by Coherence Disruption and Other Techniques (2005) (1)
- Recent developments in laser plasma theory and simulations (1975) (1)
- INVESTIGATIONS OF ELECTROSTATIC OSCILLATIONS OF A NON-MAXWELLIAN PLASMA. (1969) (1)
- LSP Calculations of Cone-Wire Experiments (2005) (0)
- Simple Model of Suprathermal Electron Transport (1993) (0)
- Laser light absorption with density profile modifications (1974) (0)
- Cooperative stimulated Brillouin scattering driven by overlapping, large spot laser beams (2013) (0)
- Hohlraum Hot-Electron Production (2007) (0)
- Laser-Driven Instabilities in Long Scalelength Plasmas - II (2020) (0)
- Nonlinear Features of Under dense Plasma Instabilities (2019) (0)
- Research in Laser Acceleration at LLNL (1997) (0)
- Control of laser plasma instabilities in hohlraums (1996) (0)
- Electron Energy Transport (2018) (0)
- Ion Acceleration in Ultra-Intense, Laser-Plasma Interactions (1999) (0)
- Towards a more precise driving of capsules in ignition-scale hohlraums (2016) (0)
- Development of the Petawatt Laser and its Application to Inertial Confinement Fusion (1994) (0)
- Laser beam propagation, filamentation and channel formation in laser-produced plasmas (1996) (0)
- Considerations of stimulated sideward scattering in NIF ignition-scale hohlraums (2009) (0)
- Mitigation of Laser Plasma Instabilities in Hohlraum Targets (2006) (0)
- Controlling Laser-Driven Hohlraums-Clues from Experiments with Earlier Lasers (2015) (0)
- Laser Plasma Interactions in Hohlraums (1994) (0)
- Theoretical interpretation of high-Z discs irradiated with 1. 06. mu. laser light (1978) (0)
- Ultra-intense, short pulse laser-plasma interactions with applications to the fast ignitor (1995) (0)
- Electromagnetic effects in relativistic electron beam plasma interactions (1985) (0)
- Computer Simulation of Plasmas Using Particle Codes (2019) (0)
- Collisionless absorption of light waves incident on overdense plasmas with steep density gradients (1995) (0)
- Erratum: "Studies of Raman scattering from overdense targets irradiated by several kilojoules of 0.53 μm laser light" (Physics of Fluids (1988) 31 (3130)) (1990) (0)
- Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (2018) (0)
- A model for degradation of indirectly driven ICF implosions by supra-thermal electron preheat (2014) (0)
- Interaction of 1. 06. mu. m laser radiation with variable Z-bar targets (1978) (0)
- Anomalous Heating of Plasmas by Laser Irradiation (0)
- Laser driven instabilities in inertial confinement fusion (1990) (0)
- Collisional Absorption of Electromagnetic Waves in Plasmas (2018) (0)
- Reply to the comments of Sinha and Gupta (1991) (0)
- DUE TO SELF-GENERATED MAGNETIC FIELDS*t (1977) (0)
- Scaling and mitigating stimulated scattering and two plasmon decay in ignition-scale hohlraums (2011) (0)
- ANOMALOUS HEATING OF PLASMAS DRIVEN BY A LARGE TRANSVERSE FIELD AT APPROXIMATELY 2 ($Omega$/sub PE/). (1970) (0)
- Hot Electron and Positron Energy Distributions from Ultra-Intense Laser Solid Interactions (2005) (0)
- Additional Considerations for Laser Plasma Instability Mitigation in Ignition-scale Hohlraums. (2007) (0)
- Parametric instabilities in laser/matter interaction: from noise levels to relativistic regimes (1999) (0)
- Hot Electron Distributions from Ultra_Intense Laser Solid Interactions (2005) (0)
- Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Plasmas (2019) (0)
- New regimes and challenges for laser plasma coupling in ignition-scale hohlraums (2010) (0)
- High Foot Target Design Without Cross-Beam Energy Transfer In a Cylindrical Hohlraum (2014) (0)
- Some Investigations of Wave-Particle Interactions. (1969) (0)
- Experimental Investigation of the Electromagnetic Decay Instability (1996) (0)
- Saturation and damping of stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) (1988) (0)
- The effect of the initial hohlraum fill gas density on laser propagation in NIF hohlraums (2010) (0)
- Observations of laser beam deflection in transverse flow. (1996) (0)
- Assessing the 2$\omega _{pe}$ instability in ignition-scale hohlraums (2008) (0)
- Laser-plasma instabilities and coherence control (1992) (0)
- Laser Plasma Experiments (2018) (0)
- Toward improved characterization of laser plasma coupling in NIF-scale plasmas (2012) (0)
- Laser Plasma instability reduction by coherence disruption (2006) (0)
- Laser-driven instabilities in long scalelength plasmas (1985) (0)
- Superthermal electron distributions in laser-produced plasmas (1974) (0)
- Density Profile Modification (2018) (0)
- Comparison of LASNEX calculations with experimental results of parylene disc irradiations at 1.06 $mu$m (1975) (0)
- Kinetic simulations of ultra-intense laser-plasma interactions and a novel method of generating odd harmonics (1993) (0)
- Assessing the two plasmon decay instability in ignition-scale hohlraums (2009) (0)
- Evidence for efficient Brillouin backscatter in disks irradiated by one micron light (1977) (0)
- NRC survey on plasma physics and fluids fusion plasma confinement and heating. Chapter 8: inertial confinement fusion. Final report (1984) (0)
- Light absorption and scattering mechanisms in laser fusion plasmas (1977) (0)
- Heating by Plasma Waves (2018) (0)
- Stimulated Raman Scattering (2019) (0)
- SPACING AND CESIUM PRESSURE DEPENDENCE OF ELECTRON TEMPERATURES AND ION DENSITIES IN A THERMIONIC CONVERTER (1965) (0)
- PIC Simulations of Short-Pulse High-Intensity Laser-Plasma Interactions. (2003) (0)
- Laser Plasma Interactions at Intensities from 10{sup 12}W/cm{sup 2} to 10{sup 21} W/cm{sup 2} (2002) (0)
- Measurements of fluctuation effects on laser propagation and stimulated interactions in laser plasma using near forward scattering (1997) (0)
- StarDriver: a Novel, Flexible, Solid-State Laser-Based Architecture for Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) (2013) (0)
- Polarization Measurements of Backscatter on NIF (2013) (0)
- Inertial fusion with ultra-powerful lasers (1993) (0)
- Laser light absorption and reflection in plasmas (1975) (0)
- Heating by the Raman instability (1980) (0)
- Hohlraum Energetics with a Plastic-Lined Laser Entrance Hole (2008) (0)
- Direct-Drive Green Light Designs for the National Ignition Facility. (2003) (0)
- Fast electrons, filamented laser light, and the fast ignitor (2008) (0)
- Basic Concepts and Two-Fluid Description of Plasmas (2019) (0)
- Nonlinear Effects on the Propagation and Absorption of Ultra-Intense, Short Laser Pulses in the Fast Ignitor Fusion Concept (1994) (0)
- Thresholds of Raman backscatter: effects of collisions and Landau damping (1983) (0)
- Absorption and stimulated scattering of 1. 06. mu. m light in laser-irradiated gold disc experiments (1978) (0)
- Parametric Excitation of Electron and Ion Waves (2019) (0)
- Laser Created Relativistic Positron Jets (2009) (0)
- Origins of the high flux hohlraum model (2010) (0)
- Nonlinear behavior of stimulated scatter in large underdense plasmas (1979) (0)
- Harmonic generation of ion waves due to Brillouin backscattering (1985) (0)
- NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF PLASMAS AT PRINCETON I. (1969) (0)
- Report of the First Fusion Energy Sciences Committee of Visitors (2003) (0)
- Theory and Simulation of the Effects of Magnetic Fields on Particle Transport in Dense Plasmas (1997) (0)
- Propagation of Obliquely Incident Light Waves in Inhomogeneous Plasmas (2019) (0)
- Sources of hot electrons in laser-plasma interaction with emphasis on Raman and turbulence absorption (1982) (0)
- Plasma Science of Wave-Particle Interactions (1999) (0)
- Interaction of 1. 06. mu. m laser radiation with high Z disk targets (1979) (0)
- An Experiment to Study Pulse Compression of a Laser by Raman Scattering in a Plasma (2001) (0)
- Short pulse laser-produced plasma x-ray sources (1986) (0)
- Generation Mechanisms of Multi-MeV Electrons in Ultra-intense Laser Plasma Interactions and Applications (2008) (0)
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