Soliton Formation and Saturation of Decay Instability of an Electromagnetic Wave into Two Plasma Waves
- 3 October 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 39 (14), 881-884
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.39.881
Abstract
The soliton formation with its detuning of the resonance is shown to be an important saturation mechanism for the two-plasmon decay instability at the quarter critical density in laser-irradiated plasmas.Keywords
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