Electron cavitation and relativistic self-focusing in underdense plasma
- 1 June 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 57 (6), 7122-7125
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.57.7122
Abstract
An improved cavitation model shows that stable beam channeling and electron cavitation occur for relativistic laser intensities even at powers hundreds of times larger than the critical power for self-focusing.Keywords
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