Nonlinear laser–plasma interactions

PK Kaw - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2017 - Springer
Soon after lasers were invented, there was tremendous curiosity on the nonlinear
phenomena which would result in their interaction with a fully ionized plasma. Apart from the …

Wave-particle dynamics of wave breaking in the self-excited dust acoustic wave

LW Teng, MC Chang, YP Tseng, LI - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
The wave-particle microdynamics in the breaking of the self-excited dust acoustic wave
growing in a dusty plasma liquid is investigated through directly tracking dust micromotion. It …

Plasma density ramp for relativistic self-focusing of an intense laser

DN Gupta, MS Hur, I Hwang, H Suk, AK Sharma - JOSA B, 2007 - opg.optica.org
It is known that a high-power laser propagating through an underdense plasma can acquire
a minimum spot size due to relativistic self-focusing. Beyond the focus, the nonlinear …

Doppler Spectrometry for Ultrafast Temporal Map** of Density Dynamics<? format?> in Laser-Induced Plasmas

S Mondal, AD Lad, S Ahmed, V Narayanan, J Pasley… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
We present high resolution measurements of the ultrafast temporal dynamics of the critical
surface in moderately overdense, hot plasma by using two-color, pump-probe Doppler …

Dust-acoustic soliton breaking and the associated acceleration of charged particles

FM Trukhachev, MM Vasiliev, OF Petrov, EV Vasilieva - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
The breaking of a plane self-excited dust-acoustic soliton in a dust cloud formed in stratified
dc glow discharge plasma is studied. Both macroscopic and kinetic parameters of the dust …

Propagation characters of Gaussian laser beams in collisionless plasma: effect of plasma temperature

Y Wang, Z Zhou - Physics of Plasmas, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents an investigation of the propagation characters of Gaussian laser beam
in cold collisionless plasma by considering the plasma temperature variation. The …

Laser wakefield acceleration of electrons from a density-modulated plasma

DN Gupta, K Gopal, IH Nam, VV Kulagin… - Laser and Particle …, 2014 - cambridge.org
This research reports the increased electron energy gain from laser wakefield acceleration
in density-modulated plasma with an external magnetic field. Periodic plasma density …

Propagation of Gaussian laser beam in cold plasma of Drude model

Y Wang, C Yuan, Z Zhou, L Li, Y Du - Physics of Plasmas, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
The propagation characters of Gaussian laser beam in plasmas of Drude model have been
investigated by complex eikonal function assumption. The dielectric constant of Drude …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of electromagnetic pulses generation from laser coupling with polymer targets: Effect of metal content in target

Y **a, F Zhang, H Cai, W Zhou, C Tian… - Matter and Radiation …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Powerful lasers interacting with solid targets can generate intense electromagnetic pulses
(EMPs). In this study, EMPs produced by a pulsed laser (1 ps, 100 J) shooting at CH targets …

Investigation of weakly relativistic ponderomotive effects on self-focusing during interaction of high power elliptical laser beam with plasma

K Walia, D Tripathi, Y Tyagi - Communications in Theoretical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents an investigation of weakly relativistic ponderomotive effects on self-
focusing during interaction of high power elliptical laser beam with plasma. The nonlinear …