PLASMA-WAVE GENERATION IN A SELF-FOCUSED CHANNEL OF A RELATIVISTICALLY INTENSE LASER-PULSE

Authors
CLAYTON CE TZENG KC GORDON D MUGGLI P MORI WB JOSHI C MALKA V NAJMUDIN Z MODENA A NEELY D DANGOR AE
Citation
Ce. Clayton et al., PLASMA-WAVE GENERATION IN A SELF-FOCUSED CHANNEL OF A RELATIVISTICALLY INTENSE LASER-PULSE, Physical review letters, 81(1), 1998, pp. 100-103
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
81
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
100 - 103
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1998)81:1<100:PGIASC>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
Evidence for self-channeling of a relativistically intense laser pulse in an underdense plasma is presented through Schlieren and 90 degrees Thomson sidescatter images. Using collective Thomson scattering of a probe beam, we observe that relativistically propagating plasma waves are excited over the entire length of the channel, up to 12 Rayleigh l engths (approximate to 4 mm). From the wave amplitude, the intensity i nside the channel is estimated to be similar to 10(18) W/cm(2).