Development and applications of a plasma waveguide for intense laser pulses
- 1 May 1996
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Plasmas
- Vol. 3 (5) , 2149-2155
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.871668
Abstract
The demonstration of optical guiding of high‐intensity laser pulses in a plasma fiber waveguide [C. G. Durfee III and H. M. Milchberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 2409 (1993)] has opened the way to new advances in the development of nonlinear optics‐based short‐wavelength light sources, soft x‐ray lasers, and compact laser‐driven charged particle accelerators, and offers a new practical realm in which to study, control, and apply nonperturbative laser–matter interactions at ultrahigh intensity. An overview of selected experimental and theoretical results and their applications is presented.Keywords
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