A. B. Langdon

9.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
84 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

A. B. Langdon is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, A. B. Langdon has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 43 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 39 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in A. B. Langdon's work include Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (51 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (39 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (26 papers). A. B. Langdon is often cited by papers focused on Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (51 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (39 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (26 papers). A. B. Langdon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. A. B. Langdon's co-authors include S. C. Wilks, W. L. Kruer, M. Tabak, Jonathan Arons, C. E. Max, John Verboncoeur, N. T. Gladd, B. I. Cohen, B. F. Lasinski and R. L. Berger and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of Applied Physics and Journal of Computational Physics.

In The Last Decade

A. B. Langdon

80 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Absorption of ultra-intense laser pulses

1992 1.4k citations S. C. Wilks, W. L. Kruer et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Intense High-Energy Proton Beams from Petawatt-Laser Irradiation of Solids

2000 1.2k citations R. A. Snavely, M. S. Singh et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
An object-oriented electromagnetic PIC code

1995 495 citations A. B. Langdon et al. profile →
Self-Modulation and Self-Focusing of Electromagnetic Waves in Plasmas

1974 492 citations A. B. Langdon et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Nonlinear Inverse Bremsstrahlung and Heated-Electron Distributions

1980 384 citations A. B. Langdon Physical Review Letters profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Stimulated backscatter of laser light from BigFoot hohlraums on the National Ignition Facility 2019 ·Physics of Plasmas ·R. L. Berger, C. A. Thomas, K. L. Baker, D. T. Casey, C. Goyon, Jaebum Park, N. Lemos, S. F. Khan, M. Hohenberger, J. L. Milovich, D. J. Strozzi, M. A. Belyaev, T. Chapman, A. B. Langdon	20
2	Evolution of Particle-in-Cell Plasma Simulation 2014 ·IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science ·A. B. Langdon	2
3	Stimulated Raman scatter analyses of experiments conducted at the National Ignition Facility 2011 ·Physics of Plasmas ·D. E. Hinkel, M. D. Rosen, E. A. Williams, A. B. Langdon, C. H. Still, D. A. Callahan, J. D. Moody, P. Michel, R. P. J. Town, Richard A. London, S. Langer	65
4	Analyses of laser-plasma interactions in NIF ignition emulator designs 2010 ·Journal of Physics Conference Series ·D. E. Hinkel, D. A. Callahan, N. B. Meezan, L J Suter, C. H. Still, D. J. Strozzi, E. A. Williams, A. B. Langdon	0
5	Dependence of simulated laser reflectivity on gain in National Ignition Campaign targets 2008 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·D. E. Hinkel, A. B. Langdon, C. H. Still, D. J. Strozzi, E. A. Williams	1
6	Creation of Hot Radiation Environments in Laser-Driven Targets 2006 ·Physical Review Letters ·D. E. Hinkel, M. B. Schneider, B. K. Young, A. B. Langdon, E. A. Williams, M. D. Rosen, L. J. Suter	16
7	Plasma filling in reduced-scale hohlraums irradiated with multiple beam cones 2006 ·Physics of Plasmas ·M. B. Schneider, D. E. Hinkel, O. L. Landen, D. H. Froula, R. F. Heeter, A. B. Langdon, M. J. May, J. McDonald, Jeffrey S. Ross, M. S. Singh, L. J. Suter, K. Widmann, B. K. Young, H. A. Baldis, C. Constantin, R. Bahr, V. Yu. Glebov, W. Seka, C. Stöeckl	16
8	Simulations of electron transport for fast ignition using LSP 2005 ·Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment ·R. P. J. Town, (unknown), (unknown), M. H. Key, W. L. Kruer, A. B. Langdon, B. F. Lasinski, R. A. Snavely, C. H. Still, M. Tabak, D. R. Welch, S. C. Wilks	19
9	Polarization smoothing in a convergent beam 2004 ·Applied Optics ·D. H. Munro, S. N. Dixit, A. B. Langdon, J. R. Murray	37
10	Observation of Saturation of Energy Transfer between Copropagating Beams in a Flowing Plasma 2002 ·Physical Review Letters ·R. K. Kirkwood, J. D. Moody, A. B. Langdon, B. I. Cohen, E. A. Williams, M. Dörr, J. Hittinger, R. L. Berger, P. E. Young, L. J. Suter, L. Divol, S. H. Glenzer, O. L. Landen, W. Seka	42
11	Nonlinear Evolution of Stimulated Scatter in High-Temperature Plasmas 2002 ·Physical Review Letters ·A. B. Langdon, D. E. Hinkel	32
12	Stimulated Brillouin backscatter in the presence of transverse plasma flow 1999 ·Physics of Plasmas ·D. E. Hinkel, R. L. Berger, E. A. Williams, A. B. Langdon, C. H. Still, B. F. Lasinski	7
13	Suppression of stimulated Brillouin scattering by seeded ion wave mode coupling 1998 ·Physics of Plasmas ·B. I. Cohen, B. F. Lasinski, A. B. Langdon, E. A. Williams, H. A. Baldis, C. Labaune	12
14	Resonant stimulated Brillouin interaction of opposed laser beams in a drifting plasma 1998 ·Physics of Plasmas ·B. I. Cohen, B. F. Lasinski, A. B. Langdon, E. A. Williams, K. B. Wharton, R. K. Kirkwood, K. G. Estabrook	28
15	Nonlinear Theory and Simulations of Stimulated Brillouin Backscatter in Multispecies Plasmas 1995 ·Physical Review Letters ·S. C. Wilks, W. L. Kruer, J. Denavit, K. G. Estabrook, (unknown), D. H. Kalantar, A. B. Langdon, B. J. MacGowan, D. S. Montgomery, E. A. Williams	25
16	Influence of Spatial and Temporal Laser Beam Smoothing on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Filamentary Laser Light 1995 ·Physical Review Letters ·R. L. Berger, B. F. Lasinski, A. B. Langdon, T. B. Kaiser, Bedros Afeyan, B. I. Cohen, C. H. Still, E. A. Williams	54
17	What we have learned from 3D andr, z intense-beam simulations using the WARP code 1993 ·Nuovo cimento della Società italiana di fisica. A, Nuclei, particles and fields ·A. Friedman, D. A. Callahan, D.P. Grote, I. Haber, A. B. Langdon, S.M. Lund	4
18	Overview of WARP, a particle code for heavy ion fusion 1993 ·AIP conference proceedings ·A. Friedman, D.P. Grote, D. A. Callahan, A. B. Langdon, I. Haber	1
19	Observation of laser-induced anisotropic changes in the frequency and damping of ion acoustic waves in a laser plasma 1989 ·Physical review. A, General physics ·J. E. Bernard, H. A. Baldis, D. M. Villeneuve, A. B. Langdon, W. Rozmus	6
20	Normal modes of a loss cone plasma slab with steep density gradient 1977 ·The Physics of Fluids ·Michael J. Gerver, C.K. Birdsall, A. B. Langdon, (unknown)	17

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