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On relativistic self focusing*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

P. H. Y. Lee
P. H. Y. Lee
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, E-526, Los Alamos, NM 87545, U.S.A.
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Abstract

Ponderomotive force initiated laser self focusing can be enhanced by relativistic electron motion in a laser plasma. We derive the nonlinear refractive index due to relativistic effects and find that relativistic self focusing becomes important for a 0·25 μm laser when the laser intensity exceeds 5 × 1018 W/cm2.

Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , February 1987 , pp. 15 - 25
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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