**Author details**

Leonid D. Mikheev1,2\* and Valery F. Losev3,4

\*Address all correspondence to: mikheev@sci.lebedev.ru

1 P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

2 National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Moscow, Russia

3 Institute of High Current Electronics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia

4 National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia

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