Interactions of relativistically intense laser pulses with low-frequency oscillations in the electron component of a cold underdense plasma

A. L. Galkin; Vladlen V. Korobkin; O. B. Shiryaev

doi:10.1117/12.469109

29 May 2002 Interactions of relativistically intense laser pulses with low-frequency oscillations in the electron component of a cold underdense plasma

A. L. Galkin, Vladlen V. Korobkin, O. B. Shiryaev

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Proceedings Volume 4752, ICONO 2001: Ultrafast Phenomena and Strong Laser Fields; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.469109
Event: XVII International Conference on Coherent and Nonlinear Optics (ICONO 2001), 2001, Minsk, Belarus

Abstract

A formalism is developed to treat the (T-1D) dynamics of the interactions between relativistically intense laser pulses and cold underdense plasma electron component oscillations. Asymptotic solutions to the Maxwell and electron fluid dynamics equations are developed in the Compton limit, where the ratio of the plasma and the optical field frequencies plays the role of a small parameter. The strong electromagnetic waves are described by applying the envelope approximation to the Akhiezer-Polovin waveforms. A theory of plasmon generation by the propagating laser pulse and of the corresponding nonlinear self-modulation of its envelope is established.

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A. L. Galkin, Vladlen V. Korobkin, and O. B. Shiryaev "Interactions of relativistically intense laser pulses with low-frequency oscillations in the electron component of a cold underdense plasma", Proc. SPIE 4752, ICONO 2001: Ultrafast Phenomena and Strong Laser Fields, (29 May 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.469109

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