Self-focusing and frequency broadening of an intense short-pulse laser in plasmas
JOSA A, Vol. 18, Issue 7, pp. 1714-1718 (2001)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.18.001714
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Abstract
An intense ultrafast laser pulse propagating through a plasma undergoes self-focusing and self-phase-modulation as a result of relativistic mass nonlinearity. The inclusion of a quartic (r4) term in the expansion of the eikonal in the radial coordinate r allows the modification of the shape of the radial intensity profile. The front of the pulse, under the combined effects of time-dependent self-focusing and frequency downshifting, acquires a severely distorted temporal shape. The radial profile for Iλμ2<2.8×1018 W/cm2, where I is the axial laser intensity and λμ is the laser wavelength in micrometers, is transformed from a Gaussian to a super-Gaussian because of the faster convergence of the marginal rays than the paraxial rays. In the opposite case of Iλμ2>2.8×1018 W/cm2 when nonlinear plasma permittivity approaches saturation, the radial profile in the axial region becomes broader than the Gaussian.
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OCIS Codes
(060.5060) Fiber optics and optical communications : Phase modulation
(140.7090) Lasers and laser optics : Ultrafast lasers
(190.7110) Nonlinear optics : Ultrafast nonlinear optics
(260.5950) Physical optics : Self-focusing
Citation
Chuan Sheng Liu and Vipin K. Tripathi, "Self-focusing and frequency broadening of an intense short-pulse laser in plasmas," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18, 1714-1718 (2001)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/josaa/abstract.cfm?URI=josaa-18-7-1714
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