Relativistic self-focusing in underdense plasma

Autor: Sergei K. Turitsyn, J. C. Garrison, Michael D. Feit, Alexander M. Rubenchik, S. L. Musher, A.M. Komashko
Rok vydání: 1997
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Zdroj: The 13th international conference on laser interactions and related plasma phenomena.
DOI: 10.1063/1.53536
Popis: An improved cavitation model shows that stable beam channeling and electron cavitation occur for relativistic laser intensities even at powers hundreds of times larger than the critical power for self-focusing. Numerical calculations for long pulses (100 ps) demonstrate strong self-focusing at weakly relativistic intensities. The destructive effects of self-focusing are increasingly suppressed at high intensity.
Databáze: OpenAIRE