Self-trapping of a laser beam in a cylindrical plasma column
- 1 February 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 28 (3) , 121-124
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.88684
Abstract
The laser heating of an initially uniform plasma column has been modeled in a self‐consistent way, including the effects of medium magnetohydrodynamics and refraction and diffraction of the laser light. The results show that a portion of the pulse can become trapped, leading to a pattern of alternate focusing and defocusing of the beam.Keywords
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