Cycle Distance in Guided Propagation

Author(s):  
D. E. Weston
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2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (19) ◽  
pp. 16379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Liu ◽  
Li-Ming Chen ◽  
Xiao-Xuan Lin ◽  
Feng Liu ◽  
Jing-Long Ma ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Min Wang ◽  
Zheng-Ming Sheng ◽  
Yu-Tong Li ◽  
Jie Zhang

AbstractIt is found that there is an upper-limit critical power for self-guided propagation of intense lasers in plasma in addition to the well-known lower-limit critical power set by the relativistic effect. Above this upper-limit critical power, the laser pulse experiences defocusing due to expulsion of local plasma electrons by the transverse ponderomotive force. Associated with the upper-limit power, a lower-limit critical plasma density is also found for a given laser spot size, below which self-focusing does not occur for any laser power. Both the upper-limit power and the lower-limit density are derived theoretically and verified by two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. The present study provides new guidance for experimental designs, where self-guided propagation of lasers is essential.


2001 ◽  
Vol 87 (21) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Tzortzakis ◽  
L. Sudrie ◽  
M. Franco ◽  
B. Prade ◽  
A. Mysyrowicz ◽  
...  

2000 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 2026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria V. Steblina ◽  
Alexander V. Buryak ◽  
Rowland A. Sammut ◽  
Deyu Zhou ◽  
Mordechai Segev ◽  
...  

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre J. Roche ◽  
Mireille Commandre ◽  
Ralf Mollenhauer ◽  
Francois Flory

1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (10/11) ◽  
pp. 1018-1021 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. V. Safargaleev ◽  
V. B. Lyatsky

Abstract. A guided propagation of magnetoacoustic wave in the plasma sheet located between two lobes of the magnetotail is investigated. The dispersion equation for the wave and equation connecting a disturbance of plasma pressure inside the plasma sheet and amplitude of the plasma sheet boundary oscillations are obtained. For some value of plasma pressure disturbance, the displacement of the plasma sheet boundaries becomes of order of the half-thickness of the plasma sheet. In the case of symmetrical oscillations of the boundaries ("sausage-like" mode), it creates the favourable conditions for reconnection of the magnetic field lines in the magnetotail and may lead to triggering of a substorm. The magnetoacoustic wave may be generated by sudden impulse of the solar wind plasma pressure.


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