Nonlinear evolution of the plasma beat wave: Compressing the laser beat notes via electromagnetic cascading

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Kalmykov, Serguei ^a   Shvets, Gennady ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE MODULATION; PLASMAS;

ELECTRON DENSITY PERTURBATIONS; LASER BEAT WAVE; LASER PARAMETERS; RELATIVISTIC APPROXIMATION;

LASERS;

EID: 33645971280     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.046403     Document Type: Article

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