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Computer simulation of laser-beam self-focusing in a plasma
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 1999
Abstract
Laser-beam or soliton propagation is best modelled for fast computation using a split-step Fourier method based on an orthogonal transform technique known as the beam-propagation method. The beam-propagation split-step Fourier-transform technique in one and two dimensions for the propagation of a soliton or laser beam respectively in a nonlinear plasma and a split-step Hankel-transform-based algorithm for cylindrical-beam propagation close to circular cross-sectional symmetry and its computational implementation are discussed. Attention is particularly focused on the verification of the paraxial approximations of the soliton or the laser beam using these techniques, after a brief review of the beam-propagation method.
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- 1999 Cambridge University Press
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