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Spatiotemporal evolution of high-power relativistic laser pulses in electron-positron-ion plasmas

Source: Phys. Rev. E 82, 016402 (2010); doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.82.016402

Published 2 July 2010

PACS
  • 52.27.Ep
    Electron-positron plasmas
  • 52.27.Ny
    Relativistic plasmas
  • 52.38.Hb
    Self-focussing, channeling and filamentation in plasmas
  • 52.35.Mw
    Nonlinear phenomena: plasma waves, wave propagation and other interactions
  • YEAR: 2010
PUBLICATION DATA
ISSN:
1553-9601 (online)
Publisher:
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A. Sharma,1 I. Kourakis,1 and P. K. Shukla2
1Centre for Plasma Physics, School of Mathematics & Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
2Institut für Theoretische Physik IV, Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Ruhr–Universität Bochum, D–44780 Bochum, Germany
The spatiotemporal pulse dynamics of a high-power relativistic laser pulse interacting with an electron-positron-ion plasmas is investigated theoretically and numerically. The occurrence of pulse compression is studied. The dependence of the mechanism on the concentration of the background ions in electron positron plasma is emphasized. ©2010 The American Physical Society
History: Received 18 March 2010; published 2 July 2010
Permalink: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v82/e016402
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