Self-focusing and guiding of short laser pulses in ionizing gases and plasmas

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1879-1914

  Esarey, Eric ^b,c,d,e,f   Sprangle, Phillip ^a,b   Krall, Jonathan ^a,b   Ting, Antonio ^b  

^a IEEE

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e Berkeley Scholars Res Assoc Inc   (United States)

^f AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Gases; Laser beam focusing; Optical propagation; Photoionization; Plasmas; Relativistic effects; Transient propagation; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; FOCUSING; GASES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOIONIZATION; PLASMAS;

LASER PULSE PROPAGATION; PONDEROMOTIVE EFFECTS; PREFORMED DENSITY CHANNELS; RELATIVISTIC EFFECTS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0031273964     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.641305     Document Type: Article

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