Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Linear Waves
- 3 Resonance Absorption and Brunel Absorption
- 4 Plasmonics Surface Plasma Waves and Their Coupling to Lasers
- 5 Motion in a Strong Electromagnetic Wave: Ponderomotive Force and Self-Generated Magnetic Field
- 6 Laser Electron Acceleration
- 7 Laser Acceleration of Ions
- 8 Coherent Radiation Emission: Free Electron Laser
- 9 Self-focusing and Filamentation
- 10 Parametric Instabilities
- 11 Parametric Instabilities in Inhomogeneous Plasma
- 12 Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation
- 13 Vlasov and Particle-in-Cell Simulations
- 14 Strong Electromagnetic Field Effects in Plasma
- Index
9 - Self-focusing and Filamentation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 April 2019
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Linear Waves
- 3 Resonance Absorption and Brunel Absorption
- 4 Plasmonics Surface Plasma Waves and Their Coupling to Lasers
- 5 Motion in a Strong Electromagnetic Wave: Ponderomotive Force and Self-Generated Magnetic Field
- 6 Laser Electron Acceleration
- 7 Laser Acceleration of Ions
- 8 Coherent Radiation Emission: Free Electron Laser
- 9 Self-focusing and Filamentation
- 10 Parametric Instabilities
- 11 Parametric Instabilities in Inhomogeneous Plasma
- 12 Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation
- 13 Vlasov and Particle-in-Cell Simulations
- 14 Strong Electromagnetic Field Effects in Plasma
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- High-Power Laser-Plasma Interaction , pp. 163 - 179Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019