Self-compression of laser pulses in plasma

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 26, 2003, Pages

  Shorokhov, O ^a   Pukhov, A ^a   Kostyukov, I ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; COMPRESSIBILITY OF GASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); FOCUSING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PLASMA DENSITY; RAMAN SCATTERING; RELATIVITY; SOLITONS; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS (PIC); PLASMA DISPERSION; PLASMA-VACUUM STRUCTURES;

PLASMA THEORY;

EID: 1042265893     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.265002     Document Type: Article

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