Self-guiding of 100 TW femtosecond laser pulses in centimeter-scale underdense plasma

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Chen, L M ^a   Kotaki, H ^a   Nakajima, K ^a,d   Koga, J ^a   Bulanov, S V ^a,e   Tajima, T ^a   Gu, Y Q ^b   Peng, H S ^b   Wang, X X ^b   Wen, T S ^b   Liu, H J ^b   Jiao, C Y ^b   Zhang, C G ^b   Huang, X J ^b   Guo, Y ^b   Zhou, K N ^b   Hua, J F ^c   An, W M ^c   Tang, C X ^c   Lin, Y Z ^c  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH CENTER OF LASER FUSION   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^e PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA FLOW; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ELECTRON ACCELERATION; LASER BENDING; PLASMA SLAB;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 34247616460     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2720374     Document Type: Article

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