Laser guiding in an axially nonuniform plasma channel
- 1 September 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Plasmas
- Vol. 1 (9) , 3100-3103
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.870501
Abstract
A plasma channel produced by a short laser pulse is axially nonuniform due to self‐defocusing of the laser. When a delayed second laser pulse propagates through the channel, diffraction and refraction effects do not balance each other exactly, resulting in periodic beam radius variation with the distance of propagation.Keywords
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