Transient and time periodic self focusing of a laser beam in a plasma

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 6, Issue 5 II, 1999, Pages 1611-1614

  Bharuthram, R ^a   Parashar, J ^a   Tripathi, V K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; FOCUSING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LASER BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PLASMA DENSITY; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

GAUSSIAN LASER BEAMS; HANKEL FUNCTION TRANSFORMS; PARAXIAL RAY APPROXIMATION; TIME PERIODIC SELF-FOCUSING; TRANSIENT SELF-FOCUSING;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

EID: 0032606339     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.873414     Document Type: Article

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