Self-focusing and merging of two copropagating laser beams in underdense plasma

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2002, Pages

  Dong, Quan Li ^a   Sheng, Zheng Ming ^a   Zhang, Jie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOCUSING; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA OSCILLATIONS; PLASMAS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

COPROPAGATING LASER BEAMS; NONLINEAR COUPLING; PLASMA FREQUENCY; SELF-FOCUSING LASER BEAMS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 41349088799     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.027402     Document Type: Article

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