Amplitude and phase modulation accompanying laser beam trapping in plasmas
- 15 August 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 29 (4) , 234-236
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.89048
Abstract
The self‐trapping of laser beams in underdense plasmas or the propagation of laser beams in preformed favorable electron density distributions can be accompanied by gross distortions of pulse shape and spectrum. A simple theory is used to estimate the magnitude of these effects.Keywords
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