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Relativistic and charge-displacement self-channeling of intense short-duration laser pulses in plasmasFormat | Member Price | Non-Member Price |
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Paper Abstract
Numerical solutions are given for the two-dimensional axisymmetric problem of self-focusing of powerful short-duration circularly polarized laser pulses in both initially homogeneous plasmas and static preformed plasma columns. These solutions account for (1) diffraction, (2) refraction arising from variations in the refractive index due to the spatial profile of the electron density distribution, (3) the relativistic electronic mass shift, and (4) transverse ponderomotively driven charge displacement. The most important spatial modes of propagation corresponding to the combined action of both the relativistic and charge-displacement mechanisms are described. It is demonstrated that the dynamical solutions of the propagation tend asymptotically to the lowest eigenmodes of the governing nonlinear Schroedinger equation.
Paper Details
Date Published: 5 February 1992
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 1551, Ultrashort Wavelength Lasers, (5 February 1992); doi: 10.1117/12.134824
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1551:
Ultrashort Wavelength Lasers
Szymon Suckewer, Editor(s)
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 1551, Ultrashort Wavelength Lasers, (5 February 1992); doi: 10.1117/12.134824
Show Author Affiliations
Alexey B. Borisov, Moscow State Univ. (United States)
A. V. Borovskiy, General Physics Institute (Russia)
O. B. Shiryaev, Moscow State Univ. (Russia)
Vladlen V. Korobkin, General Physics Institute (Russia)
Alexander M. Prokhorov, General Physics Institute (Russia)
A. V. Borovskiy, General Physics Institute (Russia)
O. B. Shiryaev, Moscow State Univ. (Russia)
Vladlen V. Korobkin, General Physics Institute (Russia)
Alexander M. Prokhorov, General Physics Institute (Russia)
Johndale C. Solem, Los Alamos National Lab. (United States)
Ting-Shan Luk, Univ. of Illinois/Chicago (United States)
Keith Boyer, Univ. of Illinois/Chicago (United States)
Charles K. Rhodes, Univ. of Illinois/Chicago (United States)
Ting-Shan Luk, Univ. of Illinois/Chicago (United States)
Keith Boyer, Univ. of Illinois/Chicago (United States)
Charles K. Rhodes, Univ. of Illinois/Chicago (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1551:
Ultrashort Wavelength Lasers
Szymon Suckewer, Editor(s)
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