Necessary and sufficient conditions for self-focusing of short ultraintense laser pulse in underdense plasma
- 5 April 1993
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 70 (14), 2082-2085
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.70.2082
Abstract
We analyze the propagation of a short intense laser pulse in underdense cold plasma. When no electron cavitation is present, a global invariant H is obtained, and its relation with self-focusing is studied. For relativistic self-focusing, HHKeywords
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